Böcker av George Szirtes

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.

An intriguing and absorbing collection of poems by one of the key poets now writing. Assured yet balanced by a fresh, continued questioning of our histories, current lives, and cultures, this is a brilliantly entertaining, thought-provoking collection sure to delight all readers, and writers.

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.

New collection of poems set in the Delta, with The Yellow Room at its core, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father. Poetry Book Society Choice.

One of several major British poets who took their work to Bloodaxe following the closure of OUP's poetry list in 1999, George Szirtes has published seven books with Bloodaxe, including Reel, which won him the T.S. Eliot Prize for 2004, New & Collected Poems and The Burning of the Books, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009.

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.

Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, George Szirtes, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. George Szirtes' lectures cover poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, George Seferis, Derek Mahon and several Eastern European writers.

The title-poem of George Szirtes' "The Burning of the Books and Other Poems" is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain after the Hungarian Uprising. Two further sequences are concerned with history and documentary. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.