Books by Tony Harrison

A varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen that presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality.

Mens health covers a variety of physical, psychological, social, lifestyle and political factors. This book covers these aspects.

Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness of family life and personal love, to war poems written from Bosnia and savage public outcries against politicians. In The Collected Poems, Harrison draws deeply both on classical tradition and on the vernacular of the street. Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class upbringing in Leeds, these are powerful poems for modern times.This is the first complete paperback collection of one of Britain's most controversial and critically acclaimed poets.'Tony Harrison is the greatest poet of the second half of the 20th century. . . He writes brilliantly about class, love and Britain' Daniel Radcliffe'Harrison is a masterly technician, and the most fiery and indelible English poet of the age. This book is a vineyard on a volcano' Paul Farley

Contains: "Arctic Paradise"; "Loving Memory" ("The Muffled Bells", "Mimmo Perrella Non e Piu", "Cheating the Void", and "Letters in the Rock"); "The Blasphemers' Banquet"; "The Gaze of the Gorgon"; "Black Daisies for the Bride"; "A Maybe Day in Kazakhstan"; "The Shadow of Hiroshima"; "Prometheus"; "Metamorpheus"; "Crossings".

This fourth collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for stage contains his highly acclaimed translations of Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Euripides. Included are the plays The Oresteia, and The Common Chorus (Parts I and II). This volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

The Kaisers of Carnuntum was performed on 2 June 1995 in the Roman amphitheatre of Petronell/Carnuntum in Austria and has the bloody Commodus, a Roman Emperor and son of the philosopher Marcus Aureliues, returning to the former Roman frontier town.

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. Channel Four's film of v. won the Royal Television Society's Best Original Programme Award and prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition.