Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A new edition of the collection first published in 1984, now with new award-winning poems. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Harrison
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9780241964842
• ISBN: 978-0-241-96484-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies