There is a scene in that infectious film The Damned United.
Tony Harrison, now dead at 88, dug into the trenches of war and division, elevating the vernacular to forms of classicism that grappled with some of the most historic events of our times
“I’ve got the envelop that he’d been scrawling, mis-spelt, mawkish, stylistically appalling but I can’t squeeze more love into their stone.”
— Tony Harrison
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