Tony Harrison
- Created by: Ailsa Lucia
- Created on: 13-02-19 12:13
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- Tony Harrison (1937-)
- Britain's leading poet-playwright
- His work includes film, theater and “journalistic” poems written for the Guardian newspaper during conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia
- Well-regarded translator and his translations and adaptions have been very successful.
- Poetic themes include class, race, and power.
- Noted for out-spoken politics
- Grew up in post-war 'austerity Britain' in working-class Leeds
- Scholarship to Leeds Grammar School, then Classics at Leeds University
- Armitage was "impressed with the way [Harrison] deals with his upbringing and background in his poems, and more specifically, his accent."
- First full-length book of poetry, The Loiners (1970) explores his teaching experiences in Nigeria, working in Prague, tales of love in Eastern Europe and Leeds
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