Selected Poems by Tony Harrison

Selected Poems by Tony Harrison

A revised and updated edition of one of Britain's greatest living poets. Still contains all the famous early work including the family sonnets and the controversial 'v.' but now also includes the Gulf and Bosnian War poems which brought Harrison the Wilfred Own Prize in 2007.

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His 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, theatreand 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 most recently, the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2015. He lives in Newcastle.

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ISBN 13	9780241964842
ISBN 10	0241964849
Title	Selected Poems
Author	Tony Harrison
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2013-02-07
Number of pages	288
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