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Selected Poems (Penguin Poets) (Paperback)

by Tony Harrison (Author) "The other day all thirty shillings' worth Of painfully collected waste was blown Off the heavy handcart high above the earth, And scattered paper whirled..." (more)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (29 Jun 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140587314
ISBN-13: 978-0140587319
Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.8 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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This is a second edition of Tony Harrison's "Selected Poems" containing 13 additional poems. It includes ten new sonnets for "The School of Eloquence" and his long poem "V".

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4.0 out of 5 stars From the Heart, 13 April 2007

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This review is from: Selected Poems (Paperback)

Poetry is difficult. There. Said it. And you need to persevere to discover its true meaning and worth.

Yet, Harrison is one of many exceptions to these pre set ideas.

In this book (especially in the School of Eloquence sequence) there is a wealth of genuinely accessible poetry about loss, community, and familial relationships. Whilst, at its core, there is the heart rending, and on-going story, of the scholarship boy displaced from his home, his family and his class by his education.

If you get the chance, try Book Ends, a beautiful sonnet about the uneasy relationship between a father and son and the gulf that exists between them following the death of the mother / wife. And you would have to possess a hard heart indeed not to be touched by the gently moving Long Distance.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure indulgence., 21 Oct 2000

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I've had this book for more than a year now, and despite having read every poem many times, this selection of Harrison's work has gained itself a distinguished place on the bedside table, and I still find myself dipping into it again and again to steal another dose of the pleasure. The poems are extremely accessible and the beauty of them lies in their simplicity. Harrison has the ability to portray the emotions and events of life in simple language yet with immeasurable clarity which one is immediately able to associate with. His poems wholly rely upon the response of the reader and this leads to the poems themselves being staggeringly simple but portraying things that could not be put into words on endless pages of prose.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, truely., 15 Aug 2006

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This book fell into my lap very recently and I've already fallen in love with it. There is such a personal element to the peotry of his family - he defines his fathers character which makes me see what a man he was and also see such characteristics mirrored in my own father.

An excellent book, truely wonderful, I'm glad it's among my collection.

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Had to study this poem book for my A/S level. The poems are very nice and this made it altogether a painless experience, I even go back to reading it even tho Ive finished my... Read more

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