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 REEL (Bloodaxe
2004), which won the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize. 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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"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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