Books by Palladas

Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. He read Classics at Leeds University and spent four years in Nigeria and a year in Prague before coming the first Northern Arts Fellow in Poetry at the Universities of Newcastle and Durham in 1967-8. His major collections of poetry are 'The Loiners' (1970), from 'The School of Eloquence' and other poems (1978), and 'Continuous' (1981). His 'Selected Poems' (1984) is published by Penguin. He has been much involved with writing for theatre and opera in recent years; his version of 'The Oresteia', performed by the National Theatre in 1981, was the first translated work to be presented by a visiting company at the ancient Greek theatre of Epidaurus, and was awarded the European Poetry Translation Prize in 1983.