Poetry
Guardian Books poetry podcast: Alice Oswald reads There Was a Man of Double Deed
Alice Oswald rounds off the first week in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem with a reading of a nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double Deed Alice Oswald Tim MabyGuardian Books Poetry podcast: Fleur Adcock reads Judith Wright
The latest podcast in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem finds Fleur Adcock reading Judith Wright's Request To A Year Tim MabyGuardian Books Poetry podcast: Fiona Sampson reads George Herbert
Fiona Sampson reads two poems by the seventeenth-century Anglo-Welsh poet George Herbert, "Love" and "Heaven". Fiona Sampson Tim Maby
Bones Will Crow - James Byrne
The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writi
Paperback review: Selected Poems, By Tony Harrison
Class warfare, the last vestiges of Empire, generational conflict, the importance of the dialect of Northern England, international politics, fathers and sons, mothers and sons: Tony Harrison ranges through them all, with rage and fearlessness.
Selected Poems - Tony Harrison
This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused enormous controversy wSelected Poems, By Tony Harrison
Slangy, rooted, erudite, rhythmic, Harrison is a titan among poets: a unique Yorkshire brew of Auden, Byron, Brecht and Kipling, with a slug of Roman satire.