Tony Harrison

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Tony Harrison is an English poet and playwright renowned for his politically charged verse and innovative use of vernacular language.

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Tony Harrison canonical 2
Tony Harrison (poet) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf person
playwright
poet
birthDate 1937-04-30
birthPlace England
Leeds
West Yorkshire
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
educatedAt Leeds Grammar School
University of Leeds NERFINISHED
employer National Theatre in London
surface form: National Theatre

Royal Shakespeare Company
familyName Harrison
fieldOfWork drama
poetry
translation
genre dramatic poetry
political poetry
verse drama
givenName Tony
hasAward European Poetry Translation Prize
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Whitbread Poetry Award
hasWrittenForm film poems
long poem
sonnet sequences
verse plays
influencedBy Greek tragedy
classical literature
working-class Leeds culture
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement contemporary British poetry
name Tony Harrison self-link
nationality English
notableWork Continuous
Phaedra Britannica
The Gaze of the Gorgon
The Loiners
The School of Eloquence
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
V.
occupation playwright
poet
residence Leeds
London, England
surface form: London
subjectOf controversy over the television broadcast of the poem "V."
writingStyle politically charged verse
use of dialect
use of vernacular language

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Harrison hasNotableBearer Tony Harrison
Harrison hasNotableBearer Tony Harrison
this entity surface form: Tony Harrison (poet)
Tony Harrison name Tony Harrison self-link