George Szirtes

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New & Collected PoemsPaperback, 10 November 2008

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Print Length
520 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Date Published
10 Nov 2008
ISBN-10
1852248130
ISBN-13
9781852248130

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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 of Szirtes' poetry covers universal themes: love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; and, humanity and truth. Throughout his work there is a conflict between two states of mind, the possibility of happiness and apprehension of disaster. These are played out especially in his celebrated long poems and extended sequences, The Photographer in Winter, Metro, The Courtyards, An English Apocalypse and Reel, all included here.

Product Details

Author:
George Szirtes
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
10 November 2008
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm
Genre:
British
ISBN-10:
1852248130
ISBN-13:
9781852248130
Language:
English
Pages:
520
Publisher:
Weight:
952.54 gm

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