The Inky Digit of Defiance

Tony Harrison; Ed. Edith Hall

ISBN 10: 0571325033 / ISBN 13: 9780571325030

Published by Faber, 2017

About this Item

Spanning 50 years this volume traces Tony Harrison?s development as a writer, from his Nigerian Lysistrata and the essays ?Fellowship? and ?Shango the Shaky Fairy? to his acceptance of the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2015.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Inky Digit of Defiance
• Publisher: Faber
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571325033
• ISBN 13: 9780571325030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison’s provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage, and screen presents a lifetime’s thinking about art and politics, creativity, and mortality. 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 Racine’s Phèdre, to post-Communist Europe for the film Prometheus to a one-off performance of The Kaisers of Carnuntum at the Roman amphitheater between Vienna and Bratislava, 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.

About the Author

Recognized as Britain's leading theater and film poet, Tony Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the BBC, Channel 4, the RSC, and for unique ancient spaces in Greece, Austria and Japan. He has won numerous awards for his work. He was born in Leeds in 1937.