New Light on Tony Harrison

New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and World Literature, and professionals in media where Harrison's extensive work has been least researched. The aim of the volume is to explore new approaches to the understanding of the work of one of our most important poets.

The volume examines four main areas:

- Tony Harrison's more recent poems
- The continuation of his relationship with ancient theatre after the landmark Oresteia and Trackers of the 1980-1990 decade, alongside his evolving dramatic relationship with Euripides and with French authors (Hugo, Moliere, Racine)
- Harrison's profound contribution during his periods of residence abroad in Africa, North America, Moscow and Prague, and his popularity in French and Italian translation;
- His extensive body of poems written specifically for television and radio.

This is a must for fans of Tony Harrison's work and for those with an interest in, or studying English Literature, Classical Mythology, Theatre Studies, and Film courses.

Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, King's College London

After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction by Edith Hall
Part I: Harrison's Example
1. Harrison as Elegist, Blake Morrison
2. Untitled Talk, Simon Armitage
3. The Man Who Came to Read the Metre, Lee Hall
4. Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist Poet, Jo Balmer
Part II: Harrison's Poems
5. Tony Harrison and the Guardian, Claire Armitstead
6. Metre and Memory, Sandie Byrne
7. Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to Delphi, Oliver Taplin
Part III: Harrison's Theatre
8. Nigeria, Masque, and Masks, Rachel Bower
9. The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re & Racine, Hallie Marshall
10. Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre, Fiona Macintosh
11. Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's Euripides, Edith Hall
Part IV: Harrison's France and Italy
12. 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, & the French Radical Tradition, Christine Regan
13. The Translation & Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France, Cecile Marshall
14. Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in Italy, Giovanni Greco
Part V: Harrison's Film Poetry
15. A Poet behind the Camera, Peter Symes
16. Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus, Antony Rowland
17. Henry Stead
Afterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard Eyre, Richard Eyre
Bibliography
Index