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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:
George Szirtes's workshop: George Szirtes asks
for poems on the feeling of being small
Poetry workshop: Writ small
Poetry workshop: Writ small
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:
Poetry Discussion: George
Szirtes (Poet and translator)
Literary Norfolk: George Szirtes Interview
Literary Norfolk: Backwaters: Norfolk Fields
Literary Norfolk: George Szirtes Interview
Literary Norfolk: Backwaters: Norfolk Fields
He keeps a web site, and also has a very good blog:
Here is his Wikipedia page:
Here is a review of his work in The Guardian:
One who lies alone: Sean O'Brien praises the copiousness and clutter of George Szirtes's work
One who lies alone: Sean O'Brien praises the copiousness and clutter of George Szirtes's work
You can hear his work at these links:
Vimeo: George Szirtes reads two extracts from his long poem-sequence 'Metro'
Poetry Archive: George Szirtes
Poetry Archive: George Szirtes
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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