Full Description
This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the poetics of a new post-1989 Europe. The poetics are still in the making but important poets appear and develop. They are writers whose mature work has been produced in the new social, psychological and political circumstances. They include major women poets such as Anna T. Szabo, and Krisztina Toth as well as highly acclaimed figures like Janos Terey and Andras Gerevich. The translators are chiefly poets of the same generation - Owen Sheers, Antony Dunn, Clare Pollard, Matthew Hollis and Agnes Lehoczky, whose work sits alongside writers long associated with the translation of Hungarian poetry: George Gomori, Clive Wilmer, Peter Zollman and the editor, George Szirtes.
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
