Tony Harrison (1) (1937–)
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Tony Harrison is the acclaimed author of numerous poems for the stage, screen, & television. His most recent volume of work is "Laureate's Block & Other Occasional Poems". He lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (Bowker Author Biography)
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“National Trust” 1 Exemplar
My z Leedsu 1 Exemplar
The Nativity 1 Exemplar
The Common Chorus (Pt. 2) 1 Exemplar
Toothache (in The Book of Leeds - CROSSAN) 1 Exemplar
Earthworks (Northern House pamphlet poets) 1 Exemplar
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Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (Classical Presences) (2009) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Smetana : The bartered bride [libretto : English only] (1986) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 2 Exemplare
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- Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, UK
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- Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award (2004)
PEN Pinter prize (2009)
European Prize for Literature (2010)
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Harrison is a provocative poet, who's always felt it important to speak out on issues he cares about and to challenge his audience. Since this book came out he's been in trouble for his outspoken work on Bosnia and Iraq as a war-poet, and been attacked by the Archbishop of Canterbury over another television film, The blasphemers' banquet. So he doesn't show any sign of settling down to a quiet life.
Outside the arena of scandal, Harrison is probably known as much for his work in the theatre as for his lyric poetry. He has a string of successful adaptations of Greek and Latin works to his credit (his original subject at Leeds University was classics), he made the famous 1985 adaptation of the Yorkshire Mystery Plays for the National Theatre, and he's written and translated numerous opera libretti (amongst many other things, he's a noted translator from Czech...).
What struck me in this collection, in particular, were the poems from From the School of eloquence (1978) and Continuous (1981) where Harrison digs into his own working-class family background in Leeds to explore - mostly in a classical sonnet form with slight variations - the way powerlessness in society is linked to inarticulateness. He has gone on beyond the limited scope his parents had to live their lives through the freedom he has as a poet to express himself in the world, but he has never been able to discuss that with his parents because they simply don't have the tools for it. Obviously it's in the light of those poems that we have to read his more famous lyrics about the Sikh bearer on the coffee label ("Old soldiers") and about the paperhanger who left one "perfect" line of verse hidden on the wall of Wordsworth's cottage ("Remains").
But "v.", in which he tries to get into the mind of the skinheads who have sprayed obscene graffiti on his parents' tombstone,is quite something, too...! And so are the poems from his time in Nigeria where he digs, via the characters of the "White Queen" and the "PWD man", into the not-merely-metaphorical connection between colonialism and sexual exploitation. And so is "Skywriting", where the poet's glass desktop turns into the surface of a Hockney swimming-pool...… (mehr)