Collected Poems

The first complete collection of Tony Harrison's work -­ the 2015 recipient of the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
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 from Bosnia and savage public outcries against politicians.The Collected Poems 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, these are powerful poems for modern times.

TONY HARRISON was born in Leeds in 1937. His first book, The Loiners, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and in 1992 he won the Whitbread Poetry Prize withThe Gaze of the Gorgon. He has also written extensively for film, theatre and opera, including highly acclaimed adaptations of the English Mystery Plays and Aeschylus'sOresteia for the National Theatre. In 2006 he won the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award for his recent war poetry, in 2009 he was the inaugural winner of the PEN/Pinter Prize and in 2015 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. He lives in Newcastle and London.