Performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary but will now double as a tribute to writer who died last week Tony Harrison's state-of-the-nation poem V is to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that directly inspired the Yorkshire writer, who died last week. The seeds of V, first printed in the London Review of Books (LRB) in 1985, were sown when Harrison visited his parents' graves at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM on September 29, 2025