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New & Collected Poems
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. 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 illusi...more
Paperback, 520 pages
Published
December 23rd 2008
by Bloodaxe Books
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Ivona Poyntz
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This bugs me becaue I like specific poems by Szirtes across the whole spectrum of his published works: I can't be bound by just this edition. Where is 'the burning of the books' in good reads. Well, here goes: this poet has a unique turn of phrase, and more than anyone i've read, he has the ability to cross refer to famous/iconic pictures/poets/photographers/writers/etc without sounding pompous and like he's too big for his britches so to speak. Take his prologue to burning of the books. He says...more
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