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Tony Harrison has always been a prolific correspondent. There are literally thousands of his postcards surviving in various collections and archives, many of which detail the ideas, plans, and progress of his creative endeavours. Professor Oliver Taplin, friend, collaborator, and critic of Harrison’s work, has taken this opportunity to review and sift his own extensive personal cache, identifying those that reveal the relationship between Harrison’s work in the classics and his creative progression. The most prolific and revealing of this collection of ‘Bardcards’ are those written about Harrison’s imagining of Sophocles’ Ichneutae, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, which was composed in an extraordinary twelve months of creative fervour in 1987–88. Those insights are shared in this chapter, which provides vivid photographs of the innovative and exciting premier of Trackers in rehearsal.
Title: Bardcards
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Tony Harrison has always been a prolific correspondent.
There are literally thousands of his postcards surviving in various collections and archives, many of which detail the ideas, plans, and progress of his creative endeavours.
Professor Oliver Taplin, friend, collaborator, and critic of Harrison’s work, has taken this opportunity to review and sift his own extensive personal cache, identifying those that reveal the relationship between Harrison’s work in the classics and his creative progression.
The most prolific and revealing of this collection of ‘Bardcards’ are those written about Harrison’s imagining of Sophocles’ Ichneutae, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, which was composed in an extraordinary twelve months of creative fervour in 1987–88.
Those insights are shared in this chapter, which provides vivid photographs of the innovative and exciting premier of Trackers in rehearsal.