AbbreviationsForeword, Lord GowrieIntroduction: Tony Harrisons Public Poetry, Sandie Byrne1. The Best Poet of 1961, Desmond Graham2. Tony Harrison the Playwright, Richard Eyre3. v. by Tony Harrison, or Production No. 73095, LWT Arts, Melvyn Bragg4. On Not Being Milton, Marvell, or Gray, Sandie Byrne5. Open to Experience: Structure and Exploration in Tony Harrisons Poetry, Jem Poster6. Culture and Debate, Christopher Butler7. Book Ends: Harrisons Public and Private Poetry, N. S. Thompson8. Tony Harrison and the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger9. Doomsongs: Tony Harrison and War, Rick Rylance10.
The Drunken Porter Does Poetry: Metre and Voice in the Poems of Tony Harrison, Martyn Crucefix11. The Chorus of Mams, Oliver Taplin12. Poetry or Bust: Tony Harrison and Salts Mill, Jonathan Silver13. In the Canons Mouth: Tony Harrison and Twentieth-Century Poetry, Peter Forbes14.
Command of English, Bernard ODonoghue15. Pericles in Tynemouth, Desmond GrahamNotesContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex