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New Order
Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation
Av Istvan Kemeny, Krisztina Toth m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
301 kr
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The prize-winning poet and translator George Szirtes has selected work from eleven of Hungary's leading young poets for this bi-lingual anthology, the publication of which coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. This is the first major anthology of Hungarian …
The Melancholy of Resistance
Av László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes
Inbunden, 2000
408 kr
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Photographer at Sixteen
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
E-bok, 2019
45 kr
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A poet''s memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey. **RADIO 4''s BOOK OF THE WEEK FROM 15 March 2021** "A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling" EDMUND DE WAAL *WINNER OF …
Photographer at Sixteen
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling" EDMUND DE WAAL*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK …
Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 Anthology
A Selection of the Shortlist
Av Sue Goyette, Joan Naviyuk Kane m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
206 kr
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Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing …
More Bloody Clerihews
Av Andy Jackson, George Szirtes
Häftad, 2022
124 kr
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Following their widely ignored 2019 anthology The Call of the Clerihew , George Szirtes and Andy Jackson make another doomed attempt to interest the world in the ridiculous four-line biographical poetic form known as the Clerihew. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) when he was a …
New & Collected Poems
E-bok, 2011
261 kr
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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 …
Burning of the Books and other poems
E-bok, 2014
167 kr
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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 as a child refugee after the Hungarian Uprising. Book burning is associated with the Nazis'' burning of what they considered to be …
Bad Machine
E-bok, 2014
167 kr
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The body is the ''bad machine'' of George Szirtes'' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly father and of his younger friend, the poet Michael Murphy, remind him how machines - sources of energy and delight in their prime - go so easily wrong; and that change in the body is a signal …
Mapping the Delta
Häftad, 2016
177 kr
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The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors. Dreamers and fantasists repopulate its hidden corners: …
Mapping the Delta
E-bok, 2016
218 kr
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Poetry Book Society Choice. The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors. Dreamers and fantasists repopulate …
Fresh Out of the Sky
Häftad, 2021
179 kr
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Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies intertwined with passages about major life changes involving country, identity and belonging. It is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it, reflecting on it and dreaming about it. The title …
Fresh Out of the Sky
E-bok, 2021
246 kr
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Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies about major life-changes involving country, identity and belonging. It is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it, reflecting on it and dreaming about it. The title sequence of the book …
New & Collected Poems
Häftad, 2008
351 kr
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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 …
Burning of the Books and Other Poems
Häftad, 2009
163 kr
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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 as a child refugee after the Hungarian Uprising. Book burning is associated with the Nazis' burning of what they considered to be …
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses
Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the sense of history as knowledge: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
Häftad, 2010
120 kr
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In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity …
This Line is Not for Turning - An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry
Av Carrie Etter, George Szirtes m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
330 kr
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Celebrating an increasingly interesting form that concentrates short prose pieces with the techniques of poetry brought to bear, this is the first anthology of its kind in the UK and features well known proponents of the prose poetry form such as George Szirtes and Pascale Petit, as well as …
Field Guide to Southern China
Av George Szirtes, Ravi Shankar
Häftad, 2015
129 kr
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In 2016, award-winning Hungarian British poet George Szirtes and Indian American poet Ravi Shankar spent a month in China on a residency at Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou. Traveling to the scenic spot of Yangshou, located along the Li River in the Southeast of Guilin Province and with views of …
Inventing Joy
Häftad, 2022
113 kr
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This short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing... the list goes on.
Call of the Clerihew
Av George Szirtes, Andy Jackson
Häftad, 2019
111 kr
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Sometimes described as the literate cousin of the Limerick, the Clerihew has attracted and inspired writers from GK Chesterton and Gavin Ewart to Craig Brown. WH Auden once wrote an entire book of Clerihews. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), the Clerihew is a childish anti-panegyric, …
Ten Poets: UEA Poetry 2010
Häftad, 2010
126 kr
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The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents its annual selection of new young poets. Founded in 1992, students and tutors on the course have included Owen Sheers, Kathy Simmonds, Denise Riley, Andrew Motion, Ben Borek, Lavinia Greenlaw, George Szirtes, Matthew Hollis, Adam Foulds, Hugo …
Collected Poems
Av Freda Downie, George Szirtes
Häftad, 1995
128 kr
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This posthumously published retrospection covers Downie's collections A Strange Here (1977) and Plainsong (1981) along with a larger number of previously uncollected poems.‘Geoffrey Grigson, who gave his approval to very few new poets, greeted A Stranger Here, Freda Downie’s first collection, as “a …
56
Inbunden, 2016
188 kr
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56 is a collaboration between two poets from very different literary traditions whose ears are tuned to a mutual music. With a painting by Jenny Saville as a starting point, this collaboration grew into a sequence of 56 poems which, by coincidence, was begun fifty-six years after 1956, the year in …
