Key Information
Reference code
K/PP106/5/102/1-4
Title
Two letters from Tony Harrison to Mottram, 1986, with related cuttings, 1981-1992
Date(s)
- 1981 - 1992 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Tony Harrison: typescript letter to Mottram, 15 Jan 1986, mentioning current work on short stories: 'I'm quite well at the moment, even if I'm a little despressed(?)....'; typescript letter in red, 16 Jul 1986, declining to forward his poems to Mottram: 'I'm trying to paint pictures at the moment, but NO WORDS ever again'; newspaper cutting with criticism of Harrison's rendering of Aeschylus from New Statesman, 4 Dec 1981; review of Harrison's The gaze of the Gorgon (Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle on Tyne, 1992) by Robert Winder, Independent, 4 Dec 1992