Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Harrison, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140586296 ISBN 13 : 9780140586299

Editeur : Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

This second edition of his "selected poems" contains 13 additional poems, including ten new sonnets for "The School of Eloquence" and his remarkable long poem "V".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937 and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. His collections of poetry include The Loiners, Continuous, v, A Cold Coming, Laureate's Block and most recently Under the Clock - published as a Pocket Penguin for Penguin's 70th birthday in May 2005. Recognized as Britain's leading theatre and film poet, Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the BBC and Channel 4. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Royal Television Society Award, the European Poetry Translation Prize and the Prix Italia.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This generous selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes sixty-three poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard, written during the miners' strike, which created such a stir when it was broadcast on television in the late 1980s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140586296
• ISBN 13: 9780140586299
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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