Description: Further DetailsTitle: v.Condition: NewEAN: 9780906427972ISBN: 9780906427972Edition: 2nd editionPublisher: Bloodaxe Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/25/1989Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 138mmItem Weight: 153gAuthor: Tony HarrisonLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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. In the book-length poem, he confronts the foul-mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and alienation. The political and media reaction to v. would make a book in itself. This is that book. As well as Tony Harrison's poem and Graham Sykes's photographs, this new edition of v. includes press articles, letters, reviews, a defence of the poem and film by director Richard Eyre, and a transcript of the phone calls logged by Channel Four on the night of the broadcast. Channel Four’s film of v. won the Royal Television Society’s Best Original Programme Award.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 Mail: A torrent of four-letter filth… the most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation's living rooms… the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.'Gerald Howarth, MP: 'It is full of expletives and I can't see that it serves any artistic purpose whatsoever.'Mary Whitehouse: 'This work of singular nastiness.'Sir Harold Pinter: 'The criticism against the poem has been offensive, juvenile and, of course, philistine. It should certainly be broadcast.'Sir Richard Eyre: 'If I had the slightest influence over educational policy in this country, I'd see that v. was a set text in every school in the country, but of course if we lived in that sort of country, the poem wouldn't have needed to be written.'Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 1989 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: v.
Title: v.
EAN: 9780906427972
ISBN: 9780906427972
Release Date: 05/25/1989
Release Year: 1989
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Edition: 2
Book Title: V
Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Topic: General
Publication Year: 1989
Item Height: 0.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Author: Tony Harrison
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
