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You may know this news already, but I am very pleased to tell you that award-winning poet and translator George Szirtes will judge the IBPC poems for this coming summer. Last October, he did The Guardian's poetry workshop. Here are the links:
Now, over at Poets' Graves, there is a thread about him, begun by Cameron Self, who posts up an interview with George, and furthers the thread by putting up a link of a dozen of his sonnets. Here are the links:
He keeps a web site, and also has a very good blog:
Here is his Wikipedia page:
You can hear his work at these links:
As you can see, there is a whole lot out there to surf and read about and by George Szirtes. Here's the Google search:
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