{"product_id":"9780141957302","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence \u003ci\u003eThe School of Eloquence \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis substantially revised and updated edition now also features a generous selection of Harrison's most recent work, including the acclaimed poems he wrote for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection to be savoured by fans of Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A voracious appetite for language. Brilliant, passionate, outrageous, abrasive, but also, as in the family sonnets, immeasurably tender'  Harold Pinter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In the front rank of contemporary British poets. Harrison's range is exhilarating, his clarity and technical mastery a sharp pleasure'  Melvyn Bragg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Poems written in a style which I feel I have all my life been waiting for'  Stephen Spender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A poet of great technical accomplishment whose work insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence'  Sean O'Brien, \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077565530352,"sku":"9780141957302","price":11.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141957302_p0.jpg?v=1763656339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141957302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}