Full Description
The prize-winning poet and translator George Szirtes has selected work from eleven of Hungary's leading young poets for this bi-lingual anthology, the publication of which coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
This is the first major anthology of Hungarian poetry of this generation.
Contributors include: István Kemény (b.1961), Szilárd Borbély (b.1964), András Imreh (b.1966), Mónika Mesterházi (b.1967), Krisztina Tóth (b.1967), Virág Erdos (b.1968), Jáos Térey (b.1970), G. István László (b.1972) and Anna T Szabó (b.1972).
Plus UK poets/translators Owen Sheers, Anthony Dunn, Clare Pollard, Matthew Hollis and Agnes Lehoczky.
"... if a lively and different way with words and imagination and risk is to be brought into original English writing, here's a fine push towards it."
David Hart, Stride
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948. His first book, The Slant Door was published in 1979 and won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. He has published several books and won various other prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize for Reel in 2005.
Contents
Introduction ISTVAN KEMENY: Biography / Grand Monologue / Some Words on Blood / Hide and Seek / Elves' Morning Song / My Father's Friends / The Bee-keeper / Dream with Several Unknown Factors / The Silent H SZILARD BORBELY: Biography / [Allegory I] / [Allegory IV] / [Epilogue II] / [Fragment II] / [Fragment VIII] / [Fragment X] / [Letter I] / [Letter II] [Letter VI] ANDRAS IMREH: Biography / Sunday Morning / Light Bedding / Trees with White Trunks / Lullaby / The Blackbird / Languages We don't speak / Compost / The Bright Boys / Afternoon / Set to go / Sonnet MONIKA MESTERHAZI: Biography / Time and Space / Assuming / Gravity / In Sunlight / Sandstone / Wild Chestnut / Wind / Journal / Once upon a Time / Sors Bona KRISZTINA TOTH: Biography / The Year of Snows / The Experiment / On the Nature of Love / On the Nature of Pain / Metro Trains in Contrary Directions / File / Tram Depot / East-Europe Triptych / Dog / After a Mouse / Map / Shadowgrass / Full Moon VIR G ERDOS: Biography / Portrait / The Sky above Josephstadt / Aliens / A Lying Tale / Vision (Game Over) / JANOS TEREY: Biography / Canaletto's Glimpse / What would have happened, if / The Circus / The Encyclopaedia of Motherland / Regret / Hungarian Bride / Interview with Anthea / Table Music(excerpt) / G. ISTVAN LASZLO: Biography / Chronos / Burger King / The Jungle / Fishmonger / Headwaiter / In the Cukraszda / Feast / The Lake / Abraham / The Cat / The Road to Autumn ANNA T. SZABO: Biography / Winter Diary / Fire, We say / This Day / The Labour Ward / She leaves Me / Autofocus / Adolescents / Hospital Window / Cold Light / Cruising Altitude TAMAS JONAS: Biography / Experimentation / Master Raven / Ballad of the Tortured / The One / Slowly It comes to Light ORSOLYA KARAFIATH - Biography / Blood / Earth / Two Flagstones / Lotte Lenya's Secret Song / Blind Map / Meadow Land / Portrait of a Woman / Sky ANDRAS GEREVICH: Biography / Desire / Waking Up / Family Chronometer / Christmas Shopping / In the Storybook - / Marmaris / Mediterranean / Odysseus / A Thursday / Cemetery / Provincetown / Let the Hand of Fate strike You About the translators
