Tony Harrison è un poeta inglese, uno dei maggiori poeti viventi del suo paese.
“The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.”
v, line 409 (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, [1985] 1989).
“Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.”
"On Not Being Milton", line 13; from From the School of Eloquence, and Other Poems (London: Rex Collings, 1978).
"Fritz Haber", line 5; from Square Rounds (London: Faber & Faber, 1992).
The title character of the poem was responsible for developing chlorine gas as a weapon of war.
v, line 121 (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, [1985] 1989).
