v.: Tony Harrison by Tony Harrison (English) Paperback Book

Description: v. by Tony Harrison Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Tony Harrisons 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 Fours film of v. won the Royal Television Societys Best Original Programme Award and prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the books second edition. Publisher Description Tony Harrisons 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 Harrisons poem and Graham Sykess 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 Fours film of v. won the Royal Television Societys 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 Harrisons 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 nations living rooms... the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.Gerald Howarth, MP: It is full of expletives and I cant 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, Id 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 wouldnt have needed to be written. Author Biography Tony Harrison is Britains leading film and theatre poet. He has written for the National Theatre in London, the New York Metropolitan Opera and for the BBC and Channel 4 television. He was born in Leeds, England in 1937 and was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, where he read Classics and took a diploma in Linguistics. He became the first Northern Arts Literary Fellow (1967-68), a post he held again in 1976-77, and was resident dramatist at the National Theatre (1977-78). His work there included adaptations of Molieres The Misanthrope and Racines Phaedra Britannica. His first collection of poems, The Loiners (1970), was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1972, and his acclaimed version of Aeschyluss The Oresteia (1981) won him the first European Poetry Translation Prize in 1983. Bloodaxe published his Dramatic Verse 1973-1985 in hardback in 1985, with a paperback following from Penguin under the title Theatre Works 1973-1985. He published several poetry titles with Bloodaxe, including A Kumquat for John Keats (1981), U.S. Martial (1981), v. (1985/1989), The Fire-Gap (1985), A Cold Coming (1991), The Gaze of the Gorgon (1992) and Permanently Bard: Selected Poetry (1995). The Gaze of the Gorgon (1992) won the Whitbread Poetry Award. Neil Astleys critical anthology Tony Harrison (1991) included several essays and texts collected or published there for the first time. Harrisons adaptation of the English Medieval Mystery Plays cycle was first performed at the National Theatre in 1985. Many of his plays have been staged away from conventional auditoria: The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus was premiered at the ancient stadium at Delphi in 1988; Poetry or Bust was first performed at Salts Mill, Saltaire in Yorkshire in 1993; The Kaisers of Carnuntum premiered at the ancient Roman amphitheatre at Carnuntum in Austria; and The Labours of Herakles was performed on the site of the new theatre at Delphi in Greece in 1995. His translation of Victor Hugos The Princes Play was performed at the National Theatre in 1996. His films using verse narrative include v., broadcast by Channel 4 television in 1987 and winner of a Royal Television Society Award; Black Daisies for the Bride, winner of the Prix Italia in 1994; and The Blasphemers Banquet, screened by the BBC in 1989, an attack on censorship inspired by the Salman Rushdie affair. He co-directed A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan for Channel 4 in 1994 and directed, wrote and narrated The Shadow of Hiroshima, screened by Channel 4 in 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the first atom bomb. The published text, The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems (Faber, 1995), won the Heinemann Award in 1996. He wrote and directed his first feature film Prometheus in 1998. In 1995 he was commissioned by The Guardian newspaper to visit Bosnia and write poems about the war. His most recent poetry collection, Under the Clock (Penguin, 2005), was followed by Collected Poems (Viking, 2007) and Collected Film Poetry (Faber, 2007). His latest book is Fram (Faber, 2008), a work for theatre premiered at the National Theatre in 2007. He received the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2015. Tony Harrison lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Details ISBN 0906427975 ISBN-13 9780906427972 Title v. 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