Reel - Couverture souple

Szirtes, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852246766 ISBN 13 : 9781852246761

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Winner of the 2004 T S Eliot Prize

Reel is now included in George Szirtes' New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).

George Szirtes came to England as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising. His two earlier Bloodaxe selections The Budapest File and An English Apocalypse brought together his poems on Hungarian and English themes. In this later collection, Reel, winner of the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize, the exile's obsessive quest for the nature of humane truth is the focus of poems of visionary sweep which pan out across a life. Memory is film in Reel: a film-crew shoot Budapest for Berlin; faces float like light on the sea; names appear and disappear on a search engine. George Szirtes reconstructs childhood from a confusion of memories, photographs and stories in which men and women change places and fathers multiply. There are sequences on love, desire and illusion, poems about political loyalties, and poems that form ghost texts shadowing other writers.

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À propos de l'auteur

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 Nagy. He co-edited Bloodaxe's Hungarian anthology The Colonnade of Teeth. His Bloodaxe poetry books include: The Budapest File (2000); An English Apocalypse (2001); Reel (2004), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; New & Collected Poems (2008) and The Burning of the Books and other poems (2009), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. Bad Machine (2013) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2013. Mapping the Delta (2016) was the Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter 2016. A new collection, Fresh Out of the Sky, is published by Bloodaxe in October 2021. Bloodaxe has also published his Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the sense of history as knowledge (2010), and John Sears' critical study, Reading George Szirtes (2008). His memoir of his mother, The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose Press, 2019), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. Szirtes lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer, having retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852246766
• ISBN 13: 9781852246761
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible