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George Szirtes · 2004 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

A Hungarian-born British poet, who left Budapest as a child after 1956, writes of the city, of family photographs and of the refugee's divided memory in sonnets and other strict forms. The past arrives through images that will not stay still, like a reel of film. A lyric collection admitted for the Eliot Prize.

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