V. by Tony Harrison Inua Ellams This is the first anthology

This is the first anthology of its kind to appear in the UK

from the everyday of breath as windows

Charnell Lucien

an excerpt from which won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2021

always beautiful'

V. by Tony Harrison Inua Ellams This is the first anthologyTony 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,