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| The poetry of Tony Harrison, passionate yet highly disciplined,
has its roots in his Northern working-class background. A scholarship
boy from Leeds Grammar School, he went on to study at the city's
university and his poetry engages fiercely with the issues and
contradictions that arise from his upbringing and education.
A radical and political poet, he works within conventional verse
forms to produce poems of a personal and public kind that challenge
established thought in a way that distinguishes him from his
contemporaries. |
| In this book Sean Sheehan discusses Tony Harrison's poetry
from his early work in the 1970s through to poems on the legacy
of the two Gulf Wars, and his status as Britain's greatest living
poet is affirmed. |
| Sean Sheehan lives in the southwest of Ireland.
He taught English for a number of years but he is now a full-time
writer. His most recent book is Jack's World (Cork University
Press) and he is also the author of Gerard
Manley Hopkins for the Greenwich Exchange Student Guide
Literary Series. |
| This series is available at a special price of £3.99
for schools only. |
