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New and Collected Poems
George Szirtes
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Description for New and Collected Poems
Paperback. Covers themes such as love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; and, humanity and truth. This work includes "The Photographer in Winter", "Metro", "The Courtyards", "An English Apocalypse" and "Reel". Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 970. 520 pages. Covers themes such as love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; and, humanity and truth. This work includes "The Photographer in Winter", "Metro", "The Courtyards", "An English Apocalypse" and "Reel". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 33. Weight: 962.
George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a dozen collections written over four decades, with a substantial gathering of new poems. It is published on his 60th birthday at the same time as the first critical study of his work, "Reading George Szirtes" by John Sears. Haunted by his family's knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, all ... Read more
George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a dozen collections written over four decades, with a substantial gathering of new poems. It is published on his 60th birthday at the same time as the first critical study of his work, "Reading George Szirtes" by John Sears. Haunted by his family's knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, all ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
520
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248130
SKU
V9781852248130
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99-10
About George Szirtes
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such writers as Ottó Orbán, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Ágnes Nemes ... Read more
Reviews for New and Collected Poems
'A brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems concerned with the personal impact of the dislocations and betrayals of history. The judges were impressed by the unusual degree of formal pressure exerted by Szirtes on his themes of memory and the impossibility of forgetting' - Douglas Dunn, on Reel, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. 'A major contribution to post-war ... Read more