Tony Harrison's "V", Radio 4

"Ah've told yer, no more Greek....That's yer last warning!

...So don't speak Greek. Don't treat me like I'm dumb."

Find the poem on BBC I-Player: Tony Harrison's controversial, angry and mighty powerful poem "V"

The Daily Mail once called him "a potty-mouthed poet"

Telegraph Radio Review

BBC Media Centre

The Guardian

BBC

The Independent, Poetry Belongs on The Front Pages

Earlier BBC item

The Telegraph

Channel 4 film Part 1

Film Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Other forms of graffiti, a column where Byron and Hobhouse inscribed their initials