Tony Harrison

The Blasphemers' Banquet

A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

V.

Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc. Starting from an incident in a Leeds' graveyard where the poet's parents' headstone has been defaced with graffiti,v. rises to a view of the divisions, antagonisms and aspirations within British society, and the poets own self.