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Tony Harrison

January 2022

  • Bill Bryden at the Playhouse theatre, London, in 2006.

    Bill Bryden: supremely gifted director who harnessed the ensemble’s power

    The Scottish theatre-maker, who has died aged 79, brought us an epic 12-hour production of the Mysteries and the world premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross

September 2018

  • Gracy Goldman (Clara Immerwahr) and Philippa Quinn (Fritz Haber) in Square Rounds by Tony Harrison @ Finborough Theatre. Directed by Jimmy Walters. (Opening 06 & 07-09-18) ©Tristram Kenton 09-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Square Rounds review – Tony Harrison conjures chemistry of good and evil

    This all-female revival of Harrison’s 1992 piece exploring scientific morality is expressively directed and performed

May 2017

  • Tony Harrison. Photo by James Drew Turner

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Tony Harrison at 80 - books podcast

  • Poet and playwright Tony Harrison,

    The Inky Digit of Defiance review – Tony Harrison turns 80

April 2017

  • Poet and playwright Tony Harrison

    The Guardian view on Tony Harrison: a people’s poet

    Editorial: In embracing the past as a way of tackling the present, he remains a constant reminder of the power of words to tell us about the world we all live in

January 2017

  • The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus at The Finborough Theatre: Tom Purbeck, James Rigby and Dannie Pye

    The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus review – sing-along-a Sophocles

    Tony Harrison’s collision of high and low art fashions a Greek satyr play into a barbed comment on the lack of imagination in contemporary culture

March 2016

  • Poet David Morley.

    Poetry Society top prize explores familial discord

    Eric Berlin wins prestigious award with poem Night Errand, while David Morley takes Ted Hughes prize

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?

April 2015

  • Jo Stone-Fewings in King John, which is touring churches

    Dahling, you were divine: religion on the stage

    As Stoppard and Shaw plays at the National debate the likelihood of God, Shakespeare’s King John is revived in a church and the St Paul’s Occupy protests are staged, Mark Lawson asks why the Bible is box office

February 2015

  • Tony Harrison

    Tony Harrison: still open for business

    ‘I hate being called a poet/dramatist/translator/director. Poet covers it all for me.’ Stephen Moss celebrates the work of Tony Harrison, winner of the 2015 David Cohen prize

November 2014

  • Shomei Tomatsu 11.02 Nagasaki 1966

    Conflict, Time, Photography review – emptiness, ruin and absence

    Tate Modern’s huge survey of the ways photographers have conveyed the aftermath of conflict is astonishingly short of images of people, writes Laura Cumming

April 2013

  • Tony Harrison

    The Northerner
    Tony Harrison to headline Leeds literature festival the Big Bookend

    Celebration of city's cultural heritage will ask the question: where is Leeds 25 years after Harrison's poem V?

March 2013

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    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review

    Three decades on, Tony Harrison's angry but exquisite poetry still has the power to chill, writes Nicholas Lezard

February 2013

  • Tony Harrison, poet

    Tony Harrison's poem V is a timeless portrayal of working-class aspiration

    Anthony Clavane: V reflects the social divisions that seem to have hardened 25 years after the poem's Channel 4 appearance caused outrage

December 2012

  • Tyne Bridge in Gateshead

    Newcastle arts cuts are disastrous, say stars of north-east

    Artists including Sting, Neil Tennant, Bryan Ferry and Mark Knopfler have written to the Guardian expressing alarm

July 2012

  • Tony Harrison

    Books blog
    Tears in a tent: rediscovering Tony Harrison's poetry

    Alison Flood: He's one of our best-loved political poets, and now that I've had a taste of his personal writing I'm desperate for more

June 2012

  • 10 of the best
    John Mullan's 10 of the best: TS Eliot quotes as titles

    From Evelyn Waugh to Doris Lessing

May 2012

  • Salt's Mill in Saltaire, which has been declared a Unesco world heritage site.

    The Northerner
    Saltaire Arts Trail welcomes the world

    One of the north's best examples of a revived and flourishing industrial community is going artistically wild for the Bank Holiday weekend

February 2012

  • Barbara Hepworth's Spring 1966 at The Hepworth Wakefield

    The Northerner
    Hepworth Wakefield flies the northern flag in £100,000 Art Fund Prize longlist

  • Keith Waterhouse

    The Northerner
    We are **** Leeds...

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