V. by Tony Harrison wales not so much the skull

not so much the skull beneath the skin

John Glenday is poet who constantly blindsides and moves us

suggest a poet whose next steps are attractively difficult to predict

stones outline a sleeping form

a bunker dissolves into gold upon Pennard’s shoulder

V. by Tony Harrison wales not so much the skullTony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984 85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. In the book length poem, he confronts the foul mouthed skinhead thug responsible, who becomes a foil for his own anger and alienation. The political and media reaction to v. would make a book in itself. This is that book. As well as Tony Harrison's poem and Graham Sykes's photographs,