Author: Tony Harrison
Cited by
- Tabish Khair (1)
- IN: Just Another Jihadi Jane (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: These V's are all the versuses of life
from LEEDS V. DERBY, Black/White
and (as I've known to my cost) man v. wife,
Communist v. Fascist, Left v. Right,
class v. class as bitter as before,
the unending violence of US and THEM,
personified in 1984
by Coal Board MacGregor and the NUM,
Hindu/Sikh, soul/body, heart v. mind,
East/West, male/female, and the ground
these fixtures are fought on's Man, resigned
to hope from his future what his past never found.
FROM: v., (1985), Poem, UK