Tony Harrison and the Holocaust

"Moving away from the customary critical focus on issues of class, this book presents Harrison's engagement with the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the prospect of global annihilation as a commitment to oppose the dangers of linguistic silence. Harrison's texts enter into arguments about the ethics of representing traumatic incidents that still haunt the contemporary; his writing is mediated by his reception of the events through newsreels as a child, and his adoption and subversion, as an adult poet, of traditional poetic forms such as the elegy and sonnet." "This is the first book on Harrison to draw on archival sources such as the Alan Ross letters, the manuscripts in the Robinson library and the Northern Arts collection."--BOOK JACKET.