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He says your life depends on your power to master words. Poem Hunter all poems of by Tony Harrison poems. (thinking I had him trapped) 'OK!' And that, yer cunt, 's a crude four-letter word. I've never feared the grave but what I fear's Vs sprayed on the run at such a lick, Personified in 1984 Fuckers like that get folk like me arrested. And every one bought now by 'coloured chaps', Which is, I grant, the word that springs to mind, when going to clear the weeds and rubbish thrown on the family plot by football fans, I find UNITED graffitied on my parents’ stone. Not train departure time, and not Town Hall They never marked his work with much at school. No one clamoured in the press for its removal or thought the sign, in wartime, rude at all. And then yer saw the light and gave up ’eavy!And knew a man’s not how much he can sup ...Yer reward for growing up’s this super-bevvy,a meths and champagne punch in t’FA Cup. Shilbottle cobbles, Alban Berg high D lifted from a source that bears your name, the one we hear decay, the one we see, the fern from the foetid forest, as brief flame. It isn’t all his fault though. Fills every space he finds with versus Vs. A sort of furtive prayer from this skin's scrawl, The grave of haberdasher Appleyard, House after house FOR SALE where we'd played cricket The map that's colour-coded Ulster/Eire's, Turning to love, and sleep's oblivion, I know. The day's already dusk, half dark, half light. Waiting at home for Agamemnon is his wife, Queen Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder.   Tony Harrison’s success stems from the fact that he is a classicist from the working class; a scholar seeking a mass audience. 'She didn't talk like you do for a start!'   Far-sighted for his family's future dead, Coal, that began, with no man here at all, Ah've got mi work on show all ovver Leeds Butcher, publican, and baker, now me, bard 'I've done my bits of mindless aggro too And perished vegetation from the pit Ah'll boot yer fucking balls to Kingdom Come. I doubt if 30 years of bleak Leeds weather One half of me's alive but one half died Home, home to my woman, home to bed where opposites seem sometimes unified. In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. Except for dad who'd hoped from 'the beyond' Ah've told yer, no more Greek...That's yer last warning! But when he bought his cigs he'd have a chat, Squeezed by the unfamiliar, and fear The supermarket made him feel embarrassed. I tell you when I heard high notes that rose above Hugh Gaitskell’s cool electioneering straight from the warbling throat right up my nose I had all your aggro in my jeering. And there, 'Time like an ever rolling stream''s The bits of clinker scooped out of my urn Then as if I'd egged him on to be obscene Since my parents' deaths I've spent 2 hours Next millennium you'll have to search quite hard, Butcher, publican, and baker, now me, bard, With Byron three graves on I'll not go short. Tony Harrison’s Long Distance II is a poem pondering the loss of our beloved, and how some of us cope with said loss. ‘Listen, cunt!’ I said, ‘before you start your jeering the reason why I want this in a book ’s to give ungrateful cunts like you a hearing!’A book, yer stupid cunt, ’s not worth a fuck! The one we hear decay, the one we see, So left a lot of space for skins to spray. And left, the ground where Leeds United play When going to clear the weeds and rubbish thrown By spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer. This lot worked at one job all life through. Now graffitied with a crude four-letter word. With the fire hose I can't say, but I'll try. Jobless though they are how can these kids, Billy Budd, Sailor Herman Melville; Bird by Bird. Some, where kids use aerosols, use giant signs class v. class as bitter as before, the unending violence of US and THEM, personified in 1984 by Coal Board MacGregor and the NUM. Tony Harrison’s ‘V’ was first published in the. Who needs, The word's once more a mindless desecration. I know this world's so torn but want no other A blend of masculine and feminine. It seemed a sort of prick-tease of the soul. The dead from their deep peace to lend support I hear like ghosts from all Leeds matches humming with one concerted voice the bride, the bride I feel united to, my bride is coming into the bedroom, naked, to my side. One leaning left's marked FUCK, one right's marked SHIT. When someone we love is abruptly and prematurely taken from us, it … The reason why I want this in a book If love of art, or love, gives you affront that the grave I’m in’s graffitied then, maybe, erase the more offensive FUCK and CUNT but leave, with the worn UNITED, one small v. Victory? Next millennium you'll have to search quite hard These fixtures are fought on's Man, resigned When a swastika with NF (National Front)'s It sounds so good when you. Yer've given yerself toffee, cunt. Margaret Thatcher famously said that ‘there is no such thing as society’, going on to declare that there were only men and woman, individuals who would strive to better themselves. The heart that can't be whole till they unite. The boy footballers bawl Here Comes the Bride “A clear-eyed look at transformative change in school food, permeated by an infectious sense of possibility.” - Jan Poppendieck, Author, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America “A compelling and original wake-up call. Though not so loud they'd want to rouse a ghost. Cafeteria Man shows us that improving school food isn't about nutrients and recipes — but vision.” The language of this graveyard ranges from. And as the shops that stocked his favourites receded whereas he’d fancied beans and popped next door, he found that four long treks a week were needed till he wondered what he bothered eating for. Which meant much longer tiring treks for tins Who needsyer fucking poufy words. The prospects for the present aren’t too grand when a swastika with NF (National Front)’s sprayed on a grave, to which another hand has added, in a reddish colour, CUNTS. That UNITED that I'd wished onto the nation By which dad dignified the family plot. On the Harvard connection "Two of Heaney’s poems...were “gifts” to Harvard. Why choose neglected tombstones to disfigure? Sarajevo was under siege between 1992 and 1996. The bus to the station’s still the No 1 but goes by routes that I don’t recognise. However, there was conflict over the way the country should be run and Bosnian Serbs began to fight with Serbs. I had all your aggro in my jeering. Shored slack, crushed shale, smashed prop. At 75 this place will suit me fine. Ah’ve told yer, no more Greek ... That’s yer last warning!Ah’ll boot yer fucking balls to Kingdom Come.They’ll find yer cold on t’grave tomorrer morning.So don’t speak Greek. A scathing take-off of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and a lament on the desecration of Harrison’s parents' grave, “V” caused an uproar when it was broadcast on Channel 4 Television in 1987. Flashed on again as almost every night. 'ave got about as much scope to aspire Or as reunion for dead parents soon recedes. Brief chisellable bits from the good book Giving the dead their xenophobic feeling or just a cri-de-coeur because man dies? Célimène criticizes harshly, and her suitors are highly entertained. But why inscribe these graves with CUNT and SHIT? The Editor A meths and champagne punch ini t'FA Cup. That's two peers already, of a sort, So what's a cri-de-coeur, cunt? ‘The only reason why I write this poem at all on yobs like you who do the dirt on death ’s to give some higher meaning to your scrawl.’Don’t fucking bother, cunt! Tony Harrison Plays 4: v. 4 (Contemporary Classics) by Tony Harrison (2002-03-04) Paperback – January 1, 1876 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating See all 4 … Look, I know With white roses cut from flour-sacks on our caps, I look at this word graffitied by some drunk This world, with far too many people in, starts on the TV logo as a taw, then ping-pong, tennis, football; then one spin to show us all, then shots of the Gulf War. Subsidence makes the obelisks all list. That suits me. 'It was more a working marriage that I mean!' They reassert the glory of their team Home, home to my woman, home to bed I've taken in fun as blazoning my name, Along the pavement past the corner shop, A better life than this one, with my mother. And the significance I saw could be a sham, As I stoop to grab the crushed HARP lager tin the day’s already dusk, half dark, half light. Police v. pickets at a coke-plant grate, (Though honesty demands that I say if Can yer only get yer tongue round fucking Greek? Like PRI CE O WALES above West Yorkshire mines By spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer. Tony Harrison Tony Hoagland Toru Dutt Tory Dent Toufiq Rafat Tracy K. Smith Tristan Gaspadarek Trumbull Stickney What I hated in those high soprano ranges An act intended as mere desecration So the feelings that I had as I stood gazing and the significance I saw could be a sham, mere excuses for not patiently erasing the word sprayed on the grave of dad and mam.). 3 boys in Leeds strip la-la Lohengrin. Much is ours. Since families and friends have gone away With not one glance behind, away from Leeds. Kitana Jessica Turnbull is an actress who portrayed Carmelita Spats in the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I’ve never feared the grave but what I fear’s that great worked-out black hollow under mine. 5 kids still play at making blossoms fall