Selected Poems (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2013
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Paperback. A new edition including some of Harrison's award-winning poems from the Gulf and Bosnian WarsTony Harrison's Selected Poems was first published in 1984 and has been continuously in print in Penguin, through two editions, ever since. This is the first major new edition for many years. The long early sequence 'Palladas' has been dropped but everything else has been retained including the exquisite sonnets about his parents, the notorious 'V', the beautiful 'A Kumquat for John Keats' and many others that are among the best-loved poems of the later twentieth century.In addition powerful and important work from the last twenty or so years has been added, in particular the Gulf and Bosnian war poems commissioned by the Guardian newspaper, which won him the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry in 2007 - the most powerful war poems of our time. Yet another side of Harrison is represented in the delightfully witty 'Fruitility' - a long poem on the future effects of global warming on the north of England.This is altogether the perfect introduction to the work of one of our best poets. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Selected Poems (Paperback)
- Author
- Tony Harrison
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241964849
- ISBN 13
- 9780241964842
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems
This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused enormous controversy when it was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and is now regarded as one of the key poems of the late twentieth century.
This substantially revised and updated edition now also features a generous selection of Harrison's most recent work, including the acclaimed poems he wrote for the Guardian on the Gulf War and then from the front line in the Bosnian War which won him the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry in 2007.
Selected Poems is a collection to be savoured by fans of Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah.
'A voracious appetite for language. Brilliant, passionate, outrageous, abrasive, but also, as in the family sonnets, immeasurably tender' Harold Pinter
'In the front rank of contemporary British poets. Harrison's range is exhilarating, his clarity and technical mastery a sharp pleasure' Melvyn Bragg
'The poem "v." is the most outstanding social poem of the last twenty-five years. Seldom has a British poem of such personal intensity had such universal range' Martin Booth
'Poems written in a style which I feel I have all my life been waiting for' Stephen Spender
'A poet of great technical accomplishment whose work insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence' Sean O'Brien, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
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