Tony Harrison obituary

Outspoken poet and dramatist admired for his stage adaptations, including The MysteriesIn February 2020, the Labour MP Richard Burgon won cross-party support from 29 MPs – 27 Labour, 1 DUP and 1 SNP – for a House of Commons early day motion in praise of Tony Harrison, as a poet who had “always written, and spoken, for the people”. The citation praised work “fit to be ranked alongside Aeschylus and Shelley”, while pointing out that the same parliamentary machin