George Szirtes Livres

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.

Ilonka, Peter, Judit sont les acteurs d'un même drame. Chacun à leur tour, ils confient " leur " histoire comme on décline un rôle. L'épouse amoureuse et trahie. Le mari cédant à la passion. La domestique ambitieuse qui brise le couple. En trois récits-confessions qui cernent au plus près la vérité des personnages par un subtil jeu de miroirs, Sandor Marai analyse avec une finesse saisissante sentiments et antagonismes de classe. Mais, au-delà, c'est la fin d'un monde et d'une société - la bourgeoisie hongroise de l'entre-deux-guerres - que dissèque avec lucidité le grand écrivain de la Mitteleuropa. Une œuvre maîtresse de l'auteur des Braises.

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.