Collected Poems

by Harrison, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780241974353
• ISBN10: 0241974356
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-09-19
• Publisher: Penguin Uk

Summary

Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964, and for more than 50 years he has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written from Bosnia and savage public outcries against politicians. In The Collected Poems, Harrison draws deeply both on classical tradition and on the vernacular of the street. Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class upbringing in Leeds, these are powerful poems for modern times. This is the first complete paperback collection of one of Britain's most controversial and critically acclaimed poets.

Author Biography

Tony Harrison is a poet whose poetry includes The Loiners, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; v., which became a cause célèbre when broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and was broadcast again in full on BBC Radio 4 in 2013; and The Gaze of the Gorgon, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He has written extensively for film, theater, and opera, producing work for the National Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera, the RSC, the BBC, and Channel 4. He has received numerous awards, including the inaugural PEN Pinter Prize in 2009, the European Prize for Literature in 2011, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2015.