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Tony Harrison - Loiner (Hardcover)
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Tony Harrison - Loiner (Hardcover)
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Tony Harrison: Loiner is published to celebrate the poet and
playwright Tony Harrison's sixtieth birthday through an exploration
of his work, including his best-known poem v.. Harrison (1937- )
has been called `our best English poet', and has been awarded a
number of prizes for his poetry, including the Geoffrey Faber
Memorial Prize, the Royal Television Society Award, the Prix
Italia, and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. This book gives his
work the serious critical attention it merits, with essays from a
number of prominent contributors, including Richard Eyre and Melvyn
Bragg, and a foreword by Grey Gowrie. The collection ranges from
personal recollections of working with Tony Harrison and personal
responses to his poems, to detailed critical analyses of his
techniques and themes, covering Harrison's short poems and sonnet
sequence, his plays, his television poem-films, and his libretti,
spanning the years 1955-1997. A `loiner' is a native of Leeds,
where Tony Harrison was born and spent the early part of his life,
and from which he was dispossessed by the enforced translation of
the state scholarship system. The word also connotes other aspects
of Tony Harrison: the `loins' of his poetry-its energy and
physicality-and the `loners' who are its main protagonists-men and
women dispossessed of their class, nation, language, and identity.
At sixty, Harrison is at his poetic peak, producing plays,
film-scripts, libretti, journalistic responses to social and
national strife, impassioned speeches of love and outrage-always in
poetry. Tony Harrison: Loiner introduces the major themes and forms
of our most exciting and cosmopolitan as well as technically
accomplished poet, and reassesses his achievement and place in
twentieth-century literature.
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