Harrison's sixth collection contains his translation of Euripides' Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the... Læs mere
Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four’s film of v. won... Læs mere
Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class upbringing in Leeds, these are powerful poems for modern times.