Tony Harrison season pays tribute to film-poet behind controversial V

When a film version of Tony Harrison’s epic poem, V, was scheduled to be screened by Channel 4 in October 1987, it provoked a furore in both the press and parliament. Harrison’s poem, which described a visit to his parents’ vandalised grave in Leeds, was originally published in the London Review of Books, and made reference to the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike which was ongoing during the period it was written. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17217686.tony-harrison-season-pays-tribute-to-film-poet-behind-controversial-v/