Collected Poems (First Edition)

Tony Harrison

ISBN 10: 0670915912 / ISBN 13: 9780670915910

Published by Viking/Penguin Books, London, 2007

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-357

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Viking/Penguin Books, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670915912
• ISBN 13: 9780670915910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His first book, The Loiners, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and in 1992 he won the Whitbread Poetry Prize with The Gaze of the Gorgon. Tony Harrison has also written extensively for film, theatre and opera, including highly acclaimed adaptations of the English Mystery Plays and Aeschylus's Oresteia for the National Theatre. He lives in Newcastle and London.