Selected Poems

A revised edition of Tony Harrisons award-winning Selected Poems

This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrisons poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem v., a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused enormous controversy when it was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and is now regarded as one of the key poems of the late twentieth century.

This substantially revised and updated edition now also features a generous selection of Harrisons most recent work, including the acclaimed poems he wrote for the Guardian on the Gulf War and then from the front line in the Bosnian War which won him the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry in 2007.

Selected Poems is a collection to be savoured by fans of Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah.

A voracious appetite for language. Brilliant, passionate, outrageous, abrasive, but also, as in the family sonnets, immeasurably tender Harold Pinter

In the front rank of contemporary British poets. Harrisons range is exhilarating, his clarity and technical mastery a sharp pleasure Melvyn Bragg

The poem "v." is the most outstanding social poem of the last twenty-five years. Seldom has a British poem of such personal intensity had such universal range Martin Booth

Poems written in a style which I feel I have all my life been waiting for Stephen Spender

A poet of great technical accomplishment whose work insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence Sean OBrien, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry