George Szirtes Libros

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.

Set against the backdrop of a small Hungarian town, the arrival of a circus heralds a series of surreal and chaotic events. Promising to showcase the largest whale's stuffed body, the circus ignites bizarre rumors and fears among the townsfolk, who desperately seek order amidst growing chaos. Central to this tale are memorable characters, including the scheming Mrs. Eszter and the naive Valuska, whose innocence stands in stark contrast to the surrounding turmoil. The narrative unfolds like a slow, powerful river, immersing readers in its dark, intense atmosphere.

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.

Compuesta de tres monólogos, correspondientes a los tres personajes que conforman la novela. Una tarde, en una elegante cafetería de Budapest, una mujer relata a su amiga cómo un día, a raíz de un banal incidente, descubrió que su marido estaba entregado en cuerpo y alma a un amor secreto que lo consumía, y luego su vano intento por reconquistarlo. En la misma ciudad, una noche, el hombre que fue su marido confiesa a un amigo cómo dejó a su esposa por la mujer que deseaba desde años atrás, para después de casarse con ella perderla para siempre. Al alba, en una pequeña pensión romana, una mujer cuenta a su amante cómo ella, de origen humilde, se había casado con un hombre rico, pero el matrimonio había sucumbido al resentimiento y la venganza. Cual marionetas sin derecho a ejercer su voluntad, Marika, Péter y Judit narran su fallida relación con el crudo realismo de quien considera la felicidad un estado elusivo e inalcanzable

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.