Poet, translator,
editor, critic, artist
George Szirtes
has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The
Slant Door (Secker, 1979), The Budapest File (Bloodaxe
2000), An English Apocalypse (Bloodaxe 2001), and most
recently REEL (Bloodaxe 2004). His Selected
Poems were published by Oxford University Press in 1996.
He has also
produced many works of translation, books for children and a study of the
artist Ana Maria Pacheco.
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publication
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"George Szirtes has made a unique
contribution to the debate about the insularity of contemporary English
poetry. He has taken England into Europe... his triumph is in his
ability to wring lyrical language from grim subjects without averting
his eyes." Peter Porter, The Observer
"...a major contribution to
post-war literature... Using a painter-like collage of images to
retrieve lost times, lives, cities and betrayed hopes, Szirtes weaves
his personal and historical themes into this work of profound
psychological complexity... by the time Szirtes was writing 'The
Swimmers' and 'The Buttonmaker's Tale' he was a master." Anne
Stevenson, Poetry Review
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Announcements
George
Szirtes' book REEL won the
TS Eliot Prize 2004
Please
be sure to visit the new George Szirtes website
www.georgeszirtes.co.uk
for ongoing articles, "notes" and web diary.
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(2004)
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jan |
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1 - 8
At the Katha Festival in New Delhi, India.
18
T.S. Eliot Prize
readings (Szirtes was one of the judges this year) at Bloomsbury Theatre
27
Reading
as part of Holocaust Remembrance day at Conway Hall
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Spring
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Touring to Germany,
Ireland, Greece and USA (including Colorado, Georgia, Illinois (Chicago) and New
York).
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apr
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17
Reading
with Ruth Fainlight for launch of books by Ana Maria Pacheco, one
with Ruth and one with me, at Purdy Hicks Gallery in London
19
Sándor Márai (author of Embers) conference in Cambridge. I have
just translated the next of his novels to appear and am one of the
speakers.
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may |
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7
The
launch of Island of Sound (Harvill) a large anthology of post war
Hungarian poetry and fiction, that Szirtes edited together with
Miklos Vajda. At the Royal Society of Arts.
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july |
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8
Thursday,
8 July - Wymondham Abbey performance of Riddles and Shuck Tale for
music
13-16
GERMAN
TOUR
Tuesday, 13 July - Dusseldorf
Wednesday, 14 July - Freiburg
Thursday, 15 July - Munster
Friday, 16 July - Regensburg
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oct |
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12
Tuesday -
Introducing John Ridland's tanslation of 'John the Valiant' at
Hungarian Cultural Centre, London
28
Thursday
- Reading at St Edmund's Hall, Oxford
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nov |
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8
Monday -
Launch of George Szirtes' translation of Sándor Márai's CASANOVA
AT BOLZANO at Hungarian Cultural Centre
10
Wednesday -
Reading at Poetry Association Scotland, Edinburgh
13
Saturday -
Reading and talking with Hugo Williams, New Writers Forum,
Norwich
25
Thursday - New
book of poems REEL (Bloodaxe) comes out
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Monday -
Launch and reading from REEL at Hungarian Cultural Centre
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George Szirtes' diary prior to 2004, go here.
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