Poem: ‘V.’
Tony Harrison, 24 January 1985
My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.
Arthur Scargill, Sunday Times, 10 January 1982
Next millennium you’ll have to search quite hard to find my slab behind the family dead, butcher, publican, and baker, now me, bard adding poetry to their beef, beer and bread.
With Byron three graves on I’ll not go short of...