V (poem)

Holbeck Cemetery in Beeston, the setting for the poem.

"V" (sometimes styled "v."[1]) is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985. The poem aroused much controversy when broadcast in film version on British public-service television's Channel 4 due to its extensive use of profanity and racial epithets.[2] The poem uses profanity directly as well as when quoting graffiti.

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