TONY HARRISON

V es la abreviatura de "versus", la palabra que se enmarca entre los boxeadores o clubes de fútbol en el cartel anunciador de partidos o veladas. "V" es un largo poema que causó en Inglaterra una honda conmocion. Se hizo una filmacion del mismo y en la edicion inglesa se incluyeron unas fotos escandalosas.Es un canto, con ribetes sociales y de protesta, sobre la marginacion suburbial centrada en los hinchas del club de futbol ingles del Leeds

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. New Poems is Tony Harrison's stunning, and extraordinary addition to the list - a complete collection of previously unpublished poetry -political, tender, sexy, argumentative, passionate, and exposed.

Tony Harrisons sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrisons translation of Euripidess Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in 2008; and Iphigenia in Crimea, after Euripides, which premiered on BBC Radio 3 to mark Tony Harrisons eightieth birthday in 2016.Tony is that incredibly rare beast: as great a playwright as he is a poet. Lee Hall I am convinced that Tony Harrison is one of the truly great poets writing in English today. Melvyn BraggHecuba Harrisons urgent translation never lets us forget the aching topicality of Euripides study of the powerful and the powerless.GuardianFramHarrison brings gloriously rich life to the stage, by turns funny and rending. His couplets are a feast for rhyme junkies.Financial TimesAs visually resplendent a piece of theatre as you will see all year. The words more than hold their own, however, expressing in rhymes to be relished that poetry might yet, if not lead us out of the darkness, at least make us feel ashamed were still stuck in it.Sunday Times Iphigenia in Crimea Set in Sebastapol, 1854, inthe midst of the Crimean war, a lieutenant decides to stage an all-male production of Euripidess tragedy. After initial raucous incredulity, the atmosphere changes as the men commit themselves to the drama until, as it draws to a close, ancient and modern worlds collide and warfare resumes in earnest.

This second collection of Tony Harrisons poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Moliere, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Princes Plays.The volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrisons provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetimes thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racines Phedre, to post-Communist Europe for the film Prometheus to a one-off performance of The Kaisers of Carnuntum at the Roman amphitheatre in Austria on the Danube, to the peace camp at Greenham Common, and from a Leeds street bonfire celebrating the defeat of Japan by the new atomic bomb to wines made from the vines on volcanoes.A collection of work filled with passion and humour that educates as it dazzles.More than Yeats, Eliot or Auden, more than anyone writing in English this century, and perhaps the two before that as well, Harrison has demonstrated that verse drama remains a living artistic possibility.Observer

Reliance on devices like the photograph and slide will lead, I rather fear, to linguistic suicide. We must keep on challenging language to engage with all we suffer from in this new modern age.This epic sweep of a play takes us from a contemporary Westminster Abbey to the Arctic ship Fram - or Forward - specially built by the famous Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, with his suicidal companion, Johansen, makes a bid on foot for the North Pole in the 1890s. Though incompatible, they share a bear fur sleeping-bag through the long winter. Nansen, still haunted by Johansens ghost is appointed to the League of Nations. As a figurehead of Russian famine relief in 1922, he conducts the first celebrity campaign, searching for means, however shocking, to make people care. Tony Harrisons major new work for the theatre, Fram, premiered at the National Theatre in April 2007.

This first collection of Tony Harrisons poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays.Includes The Nativity , The Passion and Doomsday , with an Introduction by Tony Harrison which places these Northern classics both in the context of the original cycle of plays and of Tony Harrisons own poetry.