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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I arrive here at Tony Harrison's selected poems via the TV film for which he wrote the screenplay in 1993, Black Daisies for the Bride. It's such a coruscant film that Harrison's work has been on my radar ever since. The poems in this collection did not disappoint me. Both in range and depth they are quite exceptional. They are also hard-going for the casual reader, for whom the subject matter is not served up on a plate. Rather, the reader has to work at understanding the meaning and significance of many of the titles and the references used (for example: Schwiegermutterlieder, Durham and Lines to my Grandfathers I, II). Reading aloud helps. This is when the full metre and measure of Harrison's words echo round the body and its environment. The now-notorious poem called "v" about the desecration of his parents' graves is one such example. I'd say that Harrison's poems are challenging, but that careful reading (even declaiming) helps. Not a word, a pause or a change of pace is wasted, so the reader is rewarded well for this effort. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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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... ( )