Laureate's Block: And Other Poems - Softcover

Harrison, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140589236 ISBN 13: 9780140589238

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

Tony Harrison effectively ended speculation about his chances of the Poet Laureateship when he published the title poem of this collection in the Guardian. Laureate's Block is a brilliant new collection of largely political poems which express Harrison's republicanism with enormous wit and strength. Its particular subject is the horrors of the honours system, and Harrison spares no one - even friends like Sir Richard Eyre and Sir Harrisin Birtwhistle.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140589236
• ISBN 13: 9780140589238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112