The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Harrison, Tony

105 in stock

222mm x 139mm x 44mm

Pages: 256

In this richly varied selection of Tony HarrisonGÇÖs provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage, and screen presents a lifetimeGÇÖs thinking about art and politics, creativity, and mortality. He takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of RacineGÇÖs Ph+¿dre, to post-Communist Europe for the film Prometheus to a one-off performance of The Kaisers of Carnuntum at the Roman amphitheater between Vienna and Bratislava, to the peace camp at Greenham Common, and from a Leeds street bonfire celebrating the defeat of Japan by the new atomic bomb to wines made from the vines on volcanoes.