Collected Poems (First Edition)

Tony Harrison

ISBN 10: 0670915912 / ISBN 13: 9780670915910

Verlag: Viking/Penguin Books, London, 2007

Beschreibung

First printing of the first U.K. edition (the true first edition), with the "1" printed. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price (£30.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light fading on jacket spine (as pictured). Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers McClatchy-357

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Collected Poems (First Edition)
• Verlag: Viking/Penguin Books, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0670915912
• ISBN-13: 9780670915910
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Poetry

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Tony Harrison’s Collected Poems contains all his published non-dramatic verse, from The Loiners (1970) to his most recent book, Under the Clock (Penguin, 2005), together with a few more recent poems.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His poetry includes The Loiners, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; v., which became a cause célèbre when broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987 and was broadcast again in full on BBC Radio 4 in 2013, and The Gaze of the Gorgon, which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He has written extensively for film, theatreand opera, producing work for the National Theatre, The Metropolitan Opera, the RSC, the BBC and Channel 4. He has received numerous awards including the inaugural PEN Pinter Prize in 2009, the European Prize for Literature in 2011, and most recently, the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2015. He lives in Newcastle.