Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9780906427972ISBN-10:906427975UPC:9780906427972Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC5G9419HC
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Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and alienation. The political and media reaction to v. would make a book in itself. This is that book. As well...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloodaxe BooksISBN-13:9780906427972ISBN-10:906427975UPC:9780906427972Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC5G9419HC
Tony Harrison is Britain's leading film and theatre poet. He has written for the National Theatre in London, the New York Metropolitan Opera and for the BBC and Channel 4 television. He was born in Leeds, England in 1937 and was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, where he read Classics and took a diploma in Linguistics. He became the first Northern Arts Literary Fellow...
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