Collected Poems

Tony Harrison's Collected Poems- the first complete collection of his work to appear - is published in celebration of his seventieth birthday. It contains all his non-dramatic verse, from The Loiners(1970) to his most recent book Under the Clock (Penguin, 2005), together with a few more recent poems. 'More than any other English poet I have read in recent years, Harrison makes good Camus' claim that the function of art is 'to open the prisons and give a voice to the sorrows and joys of all''' John Lucas, New Statesman