Author: George Szirtes

The body is the 'bad machine' of George Szirtes' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly father and of his younger friend, the poet M...

In Hinterland Issue 3 we publish, with huge pleasure, the pieces that won the Hinterland Prize 2019: Anna Lachkayas beautifully evoked account of i...

This short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing the lis...

The University of East Anglia is proud to announce its new anthologies of work from the prose (including life writing), poetry and scriptwriting st...

The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents its annual selection of new young poets. Founded in 1992, students and tutors on the course hav...

Introduced by George Szirtes, this anthology brings together the work of 10 new poetry talents from the University of East Anglia's world-renowned ...

56 is a collaboration between two poets from very different literary traditions whose ears are tuned to a mutual music, voice, lyric, association, ...

The tiger growls, its eyes ablaze, but we too have our tiger ways, we too can pad through the dark wood of the cosmic neighbourhood. ...

A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, and through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing a...

The Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity an...

Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies intertwined with passages about major life changes involving coun...

A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autob...

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to au...