There is something waiting to break out below the surface of the everyday in these poems. In “River of Sounds,” the river, literal and metaphorical, is in spate. What w
Monday 9 November 2020, 7pm – 9pm, free On 9 November, The Poetry Society hosts a Europe-wide Zoom reading by five great European poets. We’ll connect Charlotte Van den Broe
poetry is what’s left of life after you’ve lived it through Robert Şerban – What’s left of life My first visit to Romania was in 1993. We were already in Budapest and took
‘INTERNATIONAL RIVETING READS’ Launch event for ‘WRITERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!’ a festival of literature and social change. 28th April – 1st May 2017 Waterstones Piccadilly
George Szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He published his first book of poems in English, The Slant Door, in 1979, which won the Faber M
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won this year’s Man Booker International Prize, which he shared with his translators George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet. This speci
