George Szirtes Bücher

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.

Eine kleine Stadt in Südostungarn wird durch die Ankunft eines ominösen Zirkus aus seiner Lethargie gerissen. Hauptattraktion ist ein Herzog mit drei Augen und kaum zehn Kilogramm schwer. Er ist gekommen, um alle zu richten. Die Bewohner der Stadt sind in Aufruhr und versuchen sich vergeblich der Bedrohung zu wiedersetzen. László Krasznahorkai, der Meister der Apokalypse, hat eine schwarze Parabel auf Osteuropa geschrieben.

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.

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.

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.

Lüge und Leidenschaft, Sehnsucht und Vergänglichkeit – das neue Meisterwerk von Sándor Márai: ein Herr, eine Dame, ein Dienstmädchen. Das ist das Personal dieses großen Romans um Liebe und Betrug, um wahre und ersehnte Gefühle, um Aufrichtigkeit und Befangenheit in gesellschaftlicher Konvention. Zugleich ist es ein Abgesang auf die großbürgerliche mitteleuropäische Welt.

This anthology of new writing promotes contemporary literature of the English language from Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. It contains new names among older, recognizable names and includes short stories, poems, novels in progress and short fiction.

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.

Covers themes such as love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; and, humanity and truth. This work includes The Photographer in Winter, Metro, The Courtyards, An English Apocalypse and Reel.

This book is a collaboration between visual artist Clarissa Upchurch and poet George Szirtes. Upchurch's images came first and the text followed based on free interpretations in the form of cinquains combined with prose poems. The thirty visual works here are all based on monoprints, a process whereby ink is printed directly from freshly painted metal surface, so each printed image is unique. It offers painterly effects hard to achieve by other printing methods. The cinquain is a poetic form invented by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914). It consists of five lines that break down into a syllabic pattern of 2-4-6-8-2. The effect can be that of the breath expanding for the first four lines then being let out in the fifth.