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This short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing... the list goes on.

George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus.

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56 is a collaboration between two poets from very different literary traditions whose ears are tuned to a mutual music. With a painting by Jenny Saville as a starting point, this collaboration grew into a sequence of 56 poems which, by coincidence, was begun fifty-six years after 1956, the year in which George Szirtes came to England.

George Szirtes, unter anderem mit dem T. S. Eliot Preis ausgezeichnet, ist eine der wichtigsten Stimmen in der englischen Gegenwartslyrik.Der Gedichtzyklus "Bücherverbrennung" stellt eine virtuose und sprachgewaltige Variation über Elias Canettis Roman "Die Blendung" dar. Szirtes, der wie Canetti aus einer osteuropäischen jüdischen Familie stammt und wie dieser als Flüchtling nach London kam, greift in seinen Gedichten das Roman-Motiv des aufk...

A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, and excavates a shard of European history - a deeply honest, tender and yet unsentimental autobiographical journey.

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This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, and through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. The Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from ...

A poet looks at his mother's life going backwards across her experience, taking in exile in England, escape to Hungary, time in two concentration camps and the relative safety of childhood.

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Published to coincide with the Hungarian Year of Culture in 2003/2004, this anthology comprises a selection of Hungarian prose and poetry from the second half of the 20th century.

Published to coincide with the Hungarian Year of Culture (2003-4), this new volume in Harvill's celebrated Leopard series of anthologies comprises a selection of Hungarian prose and poetry from the second half of the twentieth century.

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