Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His volumes of poetry include The Loiners (winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), Continuous, v. (broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987, winning the Royal Television Society Award), The Gaze of the Gorgon (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry) and Laureate”s Block. Recognised as Britain”s leading theatre and film poet, Tony Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the BBC, Channel 4, the RSC, and for unique ancient spaces in Greece, Austria and Japan. His films include Black Daisies for the Bride, which won the Prix Italia in 1994, The Shadow of Hiroshima, Prometheus and Crossings. Five volumes of plays and his Collected Film Poetry are published by Faber and his Collected Poems by Penguin. His play, Fram, premiered at the National Theatre in 2008. Tony Harrison was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize 2009, the European Prize for Literature 2010, the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2015, and the Premio Feronia 2016 in Rome, in special recognition of a foreign author.
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Tony Harrison: Fram
Reliance on devices like the photograph and slidewill lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide. We must keep on challenging language to engagewith all we suffer from in this new modern age. This ep …
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Tony Harrison: Tony Harrison Plays 1
This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays. Includes The Nativity , The Passion and Doomsday …
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Tony Harrison: Tony Harrison Plays 2
This second collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Moliere, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Pri …
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Euripides: Hecuba
The first great war between the east and west is over. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, is widowed and enslaved by the conquering Greeks. When her captors demand that her daughter be sacrificed in honour …
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Tony Harrison: Inky Digit of Defiance
In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, …
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Tony Harrison: Tony Harrison Plays 6
Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in …
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Tony Harrison: Snake Catcher
Tony Harrison has lived the life of a professional snake catcher for twenty years. In this book, he introduces you to the reptiles most commonly encountered in our cities and towns, including some of …
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Tony Harrison: v.
The Star: ‘A plan to televise a poem packed with obscenities caused outrage last night. ITV chiefs intend to screen a reading of Tony Harrison’s verse v. which is full of four-letter words.’Daily Mai …
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Tony Harrison: Selected Poems
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 Elo …
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Tony Harrison: Collected Poems
Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness …
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Tony Harrison: Prometheus
Legato alla scoperta del fuoco e all’inizio del processo di civilizzazione, Prometeo è tra i miti fondanti della cultura occidentale, e anche di tutti il più versatile: ora dio filantropo, benefattor …
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Tony Harrison: Benidorm Seriously!!
Leaving the dull grey skies of the U.K. and an incredibly angry ex-girlfriend, I escaped to Europe’s No1 tourist resort, Benidorm, to start a new life. Buying and running a gay hotel in the old town …
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Tony Harrison: V.
En réfléchissant dans le cimetière de Leeds, au bord de la tombe de ses parents, à la dégradation du monde ouvrier et ses valeurs, dont il fut le meilleur produit, Tony Harrison donne à la poésie ce …
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M Y Allam & Martyn Bedford: Book of Leeds
Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenalin-rush of a case they won’t close for years. A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero – a Leeds Uni …
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