Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Harrison, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141024437 ISBN 13 : 9780141024431

Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141024437
• ISBN 13: 9780141024431
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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