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Tony Harrison
Poet and playwright
Poems include ‘V’ and verse plays include adaptations of the English medieval Mystery Plays, the Oresteia and Trackers of Oxyrhynchus.
The ‘scholar’ me, you, worn out on poor pay
only our silence made us a pair.
From ‘Book Ends’ in From ‘The School of Eloquence’ and Other Poems (London: Rex Collings, 1978)
So right, yer buggers, then! We’ll occupy
your lousy leasehold Poetry.
From ‘Them & [uz]’ in Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 1987)