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George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary, the country of his birth. His poems explore - in a wide variety of complex, skilfully handled forms - his origins, his life, and his critical engagements with works by
other poets and artists. They offer powerful and moving meditations on the roles and functions of the poet in the modern world. Reading George Szirtes offers the first sustained analysis of Szirtes' work, mapping his development chronologically and
thematically, and paying close attention to form and technique in its analysis of each poem.Haunted by his family's knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, all of Szirtes' poetry covers
universal themes: love, desire and illusion