V. by Tony Harrison wales John Glenday is poet who

John Glenday is poet who constantly blindsides and moves us

not so much the skull beneath the skin

stones outline a sleeping form

and enduring voice resonates in her poems immersed in the mysticism of love

V. by Tony Harrison wales John Glenday is poet whoTony 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,