Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harrison (2008): ‘I was well read and knew languages, but I didn’t want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people ...
In Britain, he sought to be “free not to have to puff some prince’s wedding / free to say up yours to Tony Blair.” By Clay Risen After Ted Hughes, the British poet laureate, died in 1998, his friend ...
Tony Harrison, who has died aged 88, was one of the most compelling English poetic voices of the last 60 years. He was always faithful to his vocation. “I hate ...
Tributes have been paid to the Yorkshire poet and playwright Tony Harrison, who has died aged 88. Harrison, who was born in Beeston, Leeds, wrote for the National Theatre in London, the New York ...
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Obituary: ‘Tony Harrison was a public poet, writing in his own working class, Yorkshire voice.’
Tributes have been paid to poet and dramatist Tony Harrison from staff at the University of Leeds following his death aged 88. Born to a working class family in the Leeds suburb of Beeston in 1937, ...
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