George Szirtes

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Magda's Boy

Film by Anthony Wilks

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George Szirtes Essentials

  • A 17 Point Questionnaie
  • A Review of Bad Machine at The Rumpus
  • An Interview on Translation
  • An Interview with Ambit
  • At Amazon Books
  • At British Council
  • At LRB site: Magda's Boy (film)
  • At Poetry Archive
  • At SoundCloud
  • At The Guardian
  • At The Poetry Foundation
  • At The White Review
  • At Wikipedia
  • Curiculum Vitae
  • Some early reviews

Books (Poetry)

  • 1979 The Slant Door
  • 1981 November and May
  • 1984 Short Wave
  • 1986 The Photographer in Winter
  • 1988 Metro
  • 1991 Bridge Passages
  • 1994 Blind Field
  • 1996 Selected Poems
  • 1998 Portrait of my Father in an English Landscape
  • BLOODAXE BOOKS
  • 2000 The Budapest File
  • 2001 An English Apocalypse
  • An English Apocalypse review
  • 2004 Reel
  • Reel Review
  • 2008 New and Collected Poems
  • New and Collected Poems review
  • 2008 Sears: Reading George Szirtes
  • 2008 English Words / Angol Szavak
  • 2008 Shuck, Hick, Tiffey
  • 2008 The Burning of the Books (Full Circle)
  • 2009 The Burning of the Books and Other Poems
  • The Burning of the Books review
  • 2010 John Sears: Essay on Metro
  • 2010 Fortinbras at the Fishhouses
  • 2013 Bad Machine
  • Bad Machine review

Books (Translation: Prose)

  • Dezsö Kosztolányi: Anna Édes
  • Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole
  • Gyula Krúdy: The Adventures of Sindbad
  • László Krasznahorkai: Satantango
  • László Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance
  • László Krasznahorkai: War and War
  • Magda Szabó: Iza's Ballad
  • Sándor Márai: Conversations in Bolzano
  • Sándor Márai: Esther's Inheritance
  • Sándor Márai: The Rebels
  • Sánror Márai: Portraits of a Marriage
  • Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died

Books (Translation: Poetry)

  • Agnes Nemes Nagy: The Night of Akhenaton
  • Anthology: An Island of Sound (ed with Miklós Vajda)
  • Anthology: New Order (ed GS)
  • Anthology: The Colonnade of Teeth (ed. with George Gömöri)
  • Anthology: The Lost Rider (ed Péter Dávidházi, inc GS)
  • Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man
  • Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man (full text)
  • István Vas: Through the Smoke
  • Ottó Orbán: The Blood of the Walsungs
  • Zsuzsa Rakovszky: New Life

Other Books

  • In the Land of the Giants (Salt, for children)
  • The Red All Over Riddle Book (Faber, for children)
  • Exercise of Power: The Art of Ana Maria Pacheco
  • Image Poem Film *(Hungarian)
  • Image Poem Film: Budapest (with Clarissa Upchurch)* bilingual
  • Freda Downie: Collected Poems (ed GS)

Chapbooks, pamphlets..

  • 1972 Poems (Perkin Poets 5) - see Martin Bell article
  • 1975 The Iron Clouds (Dodman Press)
  • 1978 An Illustrated Alphabet (Mandeville Press)
  • 1979 Sermon on a Ship (Dodman Press)
  • 1979 At the Sink (Priapus Press)
  • 1980 Homage to Cheval (Priapus Press)
  • 1982 The Kissing Place (Starwheel Press)
  • 1983 From the Lion's Mouth (Melandra Press)
  • 2004 A Modern Bestiary, with Ana Maria Pacheco (fully readable, Pratt Contemporary Art)
  • 2013 Langoustine (Miel)
  • Langoustine review
  • 2014 Wordless, with Kevin Reid (Knives, Forks and Spoons)
  • Wordless review
  • 2014 The Mathematics of Freedom (Imperial College with PITC)
  • 2014 Uncle Zoltán (Miel)
  • 2015 Child Helga (Miel)
  • Child Helga review
  • 2015 Germania (Miel)
  • 2015 Notes on the Inner City (Eyewear)

Some Poems on Web

  • @ Guernica
  • @ Holmi (Hungary)
  • @ International Literary Quarterly
  • @ Mad Hatter's Review
  • @ Nikos (English/Greek)
  • @ Poetry
  • @ Poetry mp3
  • @ Qarrtsiluni 1
  • @ Qarrtsiluni 2
  • @ Qarrtsiluni 3
  • @ Translation Cafe 1
  • @ Translation Cafe 2 (Romania)
  • @And Other Poems
  • Tiffey Song

George Szirtes Reading

  • Four poems from The Burning of the Books
  • Two Sonnet Sequences on Love
  • Four Middle Period Love Poems
  • Six Early Love Poems
  • Four Sonnets from 'An English Apocalypse'
  • The Courtyards

Interviews, Articles, Information

  • Contemporary Writers
  • Eleventh Hour, RTE
  • Enotes
  • Formal Wear (Poetry, USA)
  • Hungarian Interview (Brithét)
  • John Tusa, BBC
  • Literary Encyclopedia
  • Literary Norfolk, 2009
  • Poetry Archive
  • Rotterdam International Poetry Festival
  • StAnza Lecture
  • T S Eliot Lecture
  • The Guardian / Sweetest Sound
  • The Guardian: Wrestling with Englishness
  • Work in Progress, BBC

Other GS Texts Online

  • Gyula Krúdy: The Adventures of Sindbad
  • Tibor Déry: Love

Some Reviews

  • New and Collected - Guardian
  • New and Collected - Independent
  • New and Collected - Morning Star
  • New and Collected - Times
  • Reel - Guardian
  • Reel - Irish Times
  • Reel - The North
  • Reel - Verse

Writers

  • Alison Croggon
  • Anne Stevenson
  • CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
  • Daljit Nagra
  • Esther Morgan
  • Frances Leviston
  • Gwyneth Lewis
  • Helen Ivory
  • Helen Szirtes
  • Jacob Polley
  • Jane Draycott
  • Jen Hadfield
  • Judith Kazantzis
  • Kapka Kassabova
  • Linda Grant
  • László Krasznahorkai
  • Michael Symmons Roberts
  • Mimi Khlavati
  • Paul Batchelor
  • Paul Muldoon
  • Philip Gross
  • Polly Clark
  • Richard Burns
  • Simon Armitage
  • Stop Sharpening Your Knive
  • Tolulope Ogunlesi
  • Tom Pow
  • W.N.Herbert

Writers' Blogs

  • 7 bis, rue de Nadir
  • Adrian Slatcher
  • Alfred Corn
  • Andrew Shields
  • Anindita Sengupta
  • Carrie Etter
  • Charles Boyle, Sonofabook
  • Connaissances
  • Curiosa Hamiltona
  • David Morley
  • David Wheatley
  • Don Share's Squandermania
  • Helen Ivory
  • Julia Webb
  • Katy Evans-Bush
  • Marcus Speh
  • Mark Granier
  • Mark Sarvas: The Elegant Variation
  • Max Dunbar
  • Michelle McGrane
  • Pascale Petit
  • Peter Sirr
  • Poet in Residence
  • Raw Light
  • Rob Mack
  • Robert Hanks
  • Ron Slate
  • Salon des Refusés
  • Sarah Law
  • Small Observations
  • Stephen Foster
  • The Thoughtful Dresser
  • Tim Love's Lit Refs
  • Twilark

Publishers I Work With

  • Arc
  • Bloodaxe
  • Circle Press
  • Corvina (Hungary)
  • Eyewear
  • Faber
  • Full Circle Editions
  • Gatehouse
  • Knives, Forks and Spoons
  • Knopf / Random House
  • Miel
  • New Directions
  • Salt
  • Telegram

Art & Music

  • Ana Maria Pacheco
  • Boundary Gallery
  • CLARISSA UPCHURCH
  • Carl Laubin
  • Jeremy Millar
  • John Henshaw
  • Richard Horne
  • Shurikan (Tom Szirtes)
  • Tom Szirtes Mbryionics

Causes

  • Brain Tumour Action

Literary Magazines

  • Almost Island
  • Drawbridge
  • Guardian Books
  • Guernica
  • Hudson Review
  • International Literary Quarterly
  • LRB
  • Mad Hatter's Review
  • Magma
  • Manhattan Review
  • Poetry (Chicago)
  • Poetry London
  • Qarrtsiluni
  • RA Magazine
  • Rattle
  • Rialto
  • TLS
  • Tate Etc
  • The Liberal

Followers

Organisations

  • Arvon Foundation
  • English Association
  • English Pen
  • Poetry Book Society
  • Poetry Society
  • Society of Authors
  • UEA Creative Writing

Politics

  • Bob from Brockley
  • Engage
  • Fat Man on a Keyboard
  • Gauche
  • Harry's Place
  • Marko Attila Hoare
  • Max Dunbar
  • Mick Hartley
  • Norman Geras
  • Philosophy Experiments
  • Pootergeek
  • Shuggy
  • Simply Jews
  • Terry Glavin
  • The Contentious Centrist
  • The Contrarian Hungarian

Friends and Delights

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