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The Star: 'A plan to televise a poem packed with obscenities caused outrage last night. ITV chiefs intend to screen a reading of Tony Harrison's verse v. which is full of four—letter words.'

Daily Mail: 'A torrent of four—letter filth… the most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation's living rooms… the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.'

Gerald Howarth, MP: 'It is full of expletives and I can't see that it serves any artistic purpose whatsoever.'

Mary Whitehouse: ...