If any of you would like to try your luck with the reading of 'National Trust', you can find it here on the poetry archive site, though I still can't get the sound to work. You can listen again to 'Them and [uz]' here if you want to, and there's also an interesting interview with Tony Harrison on The poetry channel.
If you've enjoyed looking at the Tony Harrison poems we've done in class, you might also enjoy listening to his poem 'Initial Illumination'. He is a real wordsmith, and it is enormously enlightening to hear him talking about the ways in which he composes.
A challenge--what has this picture of a cormorant got to do with Tony Harrison?
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ReplyDelete"Farne cormarants with catches in their beaks" - the first line of the poem 'Initial Illumination'. He also talks about the way that the birds have been tarred by oil; this could represent society being tarred by war and violence? I hope I get a prize =)
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