Podcast appearances and mentions of George Szirtes

Ian McMillan's guests are George Szirtes, Cecilia Knapp, Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver and Rishi Dastidar.The beauty of a swimming pool seen from the air, banks that fly up and out of small towns never to return, the poetry of single objects seen from a train window, and the miniature brilliance of poetry pamphlets - all in this week's edition of The Verb. It can be a shock when banks leave our high streets - poet George Szirtes presents a brand new commission for The Verb inspired by that experience, and reads work from his 2004 collection 'Reel' which won the TS Eliot Prize. George has just been awarded the 'King's Gold Medal' for excellence in poetry.Cecilia Knapp finds surprising images for memories of being a teenager in new poetry on this week's show. Cecilia's first collection is 'Peach Pig' - she has published a novel called 'Little Boxes', and is Poet-in-Residence for London's City Bridge Foundation. We look out of train windows, in a new song by Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver ( from a new album called 'Hinterland'). Gerry has arranged music for films – and in his ground-breaking album 'The Speech Project' he created scores for the remarkable speakers including Christy Moore, the boxer Barry McGuigan and the singer Charlotte Church. Lisa Knapp has been nominated for the BBC folk awards multiple times - her recent performances on the 'Hack Poets Guild' album 'Blackletter Garland' were described as 'expert' and 'ethereal'. Gerry, Lisa and their daughter Bonnie Diver perform live in the studio.Rishi Dastidar shares the joy of small collections - as he celebrates poetry pamphlets with Ian - exploring their appeal and their potential. Rishi is a poet, critic and copywriter. His latest collection is 'Neptune's Projects' described by one reviewer as 'add(ing) wit, postmodern panache and mythic irony to the tradition of the open sea'

Quentin Tarantino leszedte a keresztvizet napjaink tévésorozatairól Igényesférfi.hu     2024-12-17 05:04:13     Film Mozi Hollywood Quentin Tarantino Hosszú évek óta divat a hollywoodi mozi közelgő összeomlását jósolni. Akik ezt az álláspontot osztják, gyakorta a tévésorozatokban látják a mozgóképalapú szórakoztatás jövőjét. Az ő vitorlájukból "fogta most ki a szelet" az Oscar-díjas Quentin Tarantino. Anne Hathaway nagy vágya egy bizonyos filmszerep in.hu     2024-12-16 18:11:04     Film Amazon Zendaya Anne Hathaway Matt Damon Charlize Theron Bakancslistás vágya már régóta.Anne Hathaway karrierje reneszánszát éli – néhány hónappal mutatták be az Amazon MGM idei streaming slágerével, A rólad alkotott kép című filmet a színésznő főszereplésével, valamint nemrég derült ki, hogy ő is szerepelni fog Christopher Nolan új projektjében, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Monte Cristo grófja: 6/10 – A remény 19. századi rabjai Mafab     2024-12-16 18:33:02     Film 6/10-et adok, de leginkább Pierre Niney miatt, aki jó.Dumás Sanyi korának jó kalandregényírója volt, de az ő történetmesélése ennyi idő elteltével kicsit megkopott. Ezeknek a régi íróknak jót tesz, ha egy bátor rendező veszi kézbe a szövegüket, és friss keretek közé emeli, mint amikor majdnem három évtizede Baz Luhrmann iszonyú ütős feldolgozást cs 6 karácsonyi romantikus regény, amivel bekuckózhatsz a fa alá Joy     2024-12-16 19:28:00     Könyv Már feldíszítetted a lakást és a fa miatt ellepte a karácsonyi illat az otthonodat? Akkor már csak egy ünnepi romkomra van szükséged, amivel bevackolhatsz. A könyv az utolsó pillanatban is a legjobb ajándék Tudás.hu     2024-12-16 20:05:03     Könyv Ajándék Robot Ha még mindig nem vett mindenkinek ajándékot és nincs semmi ötlete, az utolsó pillanatban is a könyv a legjobb ajándék. Összeszedtük pár szép és érdekes könyvet, hátha jó ötletet adunk. A vad robot Vajon képes-e egy robot túlélni a vadonban? Amikor robotunk, Roz először nyitja ki a szemét, ráébred, hogy egyedül van egy távoli, vad Te ezt tudtad? - 8 könyv kíváncsi kiskamaszoknak Könyves Magazin     2024-12-16 23:18:18     Könyv Biológiától a járműveken át a besorolhatatlanul furcsa témákig mindenhez mutatunk könyvet, ami válaszol a kiskamaszok kifogyhatatlan kérdéseire. December 17-én történt kultura.hu     2024-12-17 00:02:00     Zene Ausztria Bécs A zene magasabb rendű megnyilatkozás, mint minden bölcsesség és filozófia – vallotta Ludwig van Beethoven, a bécsi klasszika egyik legnagyobb alakja, aki 1770-ben ezen a napon született. Magyar költőt tüntetett ki III. Károly király Librarius     2024-12-17 08:00:40     Könyv Menekült 1956 George Szirtes 1956-ban menekült Angliába, a király kitüntetésével élete egyik szép pillanata érkezett el. Kormos Anett: A független filmesek is összeszedik valahonnan a pénzt, ehhez befolyásos emberekkel kell lepaktálniuk Telex     2024-12-16 19:02:22     Film Kormos Anett A Hogyan tudnék élni nélküled? forgatókönyvírója a műsorban arról mesélt, hogy miért nem szereti, ha a nézők azon rágódnak, államilag támogatott-e egy film, és hogy miért zavarja, hogy a kultúrában minden át lett politizálva. Készül a Zalatnay Sarolta életéről szóló film NLC     2024-12-17 04:44:18     Film Dokumentumfilm Zalatnay Sarolta Már biztos, hogy film fog készülni a 77 éves Zalarnay Sarolta életéről. A Vörös Sarolta című dokumentumfilm ugyanis zöld utat kapott. Juronics Tamás ma már beszélhet róla: életmentő műtéten esett át Story     2024-12-17 09:45:58     Bulvár DWTS A Dancing with the Stars egyik élő adásában érezte, valami nincs rendben. Másnap reggel meg is operálták. Most azért beszél róla, hogy felhívja a figyelmet: egy felnőtt embernek figyelnie kell magára. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Quentin Tarantino leszedte a keresztvizet napjaink tévésorozatairól Igényesférfi.hu     2024-12-17 05:04:13     Film Mozi Hollywood Quentin Tarantino Hosszú évek óta divat a hollywoodi mozi közelgő összeomlását jósolni. Akik ezt az álláspontot osztják, gyakorta a tévésorozatokban látják a mozgóképalapú szórakoztatás jövőjét. Az ő vitorlájukból "fogta most ki a szelet" az Oscar-díjas Quentin Tarantino. Anne Hathaway nagy vágya egy bizonyos filmszerep in.hu     2024-12-16 18:11:04     Film Amazon Zendaya Anne Hathaway Matt Damon Charlize Theron Bakancslistás vágya már régóta.Anne Hathaway karrierje reneszánszát éli – néhány hónappal mutatták be az Amazon MGM idei streaming slágerével, A rólad alkotott kép című filmet a színésznő főszereplésével, valamint nemrég derült ki, hogy ő is szerepelni fog Christopher Nolan új projektjében, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Robert Monte Cristo grófja: 6/10 – A remény 19. századi rabjai Mafab     2024-12-16 18:33:02     Film 6/10-et adok, de leginkább Pierre Niney miatt, aki jó.Dumás Sanyi korának jó kalandregényírója volt, de az ő történetmesélése ennyi idő elteltével kicsit megkopott. Ezeknek a régi íróknak jót tesz, ha egy bátor rendező veszi kézbe a szövegüket, és friss keretek közé emeli, mint amikor majdnem három évtizede Baz Luhrmann iszonyú ütős feldolgozást cs 6 karácsonyi romantikus regény, amivel bekuckózhatsz a fa alá Joy     2024-12-16 19:28:00     Könyv Már feldíszítetted a lakást és a fa miatt ellepte a karácsonyi illat az otthonodat? Akkor már csak egy ünnepi romkomra van szükséged, amivel bevackolhatsz. A könyv az utolsó pillanatban is a legjobb ajándék Tudás.hu     2024-12-16 20:05:03     Könyv Ajándék Robot Ha még mindig nem vett mindenkinek ajándékot és nincs semmi ötlete, az utolsó pillanatban is a könyv a legjobb ajándék. Összeszedtük pár szép és érdekes könyvet, hátha jó ötletet adunk. A vad robot Vajon képes-e egy robot túlélni a vadonban? Amikor robotunk, Roz először nyitja ki a szemét, ráébred, hogy egyedül van egy távoli, vad Te ezt tudtad? - 8 könyv kíváncsi kiskamaszoknak Könyves Magazin     2024-12-16 23:18:18     Könyv Biológiától a járműveken át a besorolhatatlanul furcsa témákig mindenhez mutatunk könyvet, ami válaszol a kiskamaszok kifogyhatatlan kérdéseire. December 17-én történt kultura.hu     2024-12-17 00:02:00     Zene Ausztria Bécs A zene magasabb rendű megnyilatkozás, mint minden bölcsesség és filozófia – vallotta Ludwig van Beethoven, a bécsi klasszika egyik legnagyobb alakja, aki 1770-ben ezen a napon született. Magyar költőt tüntetett ki III. Károly király Librarius     2024-12-17 08:00:40     Könyv Menekült 1956 George Szirtes 1956-ban menekült Angliába, a király kitüntetésével élete egyik szép pillanata érkezett el. Kormos Anett: A független filmesek is összeszedik valahonnan a pénzt, ehhez befolyásos emberekkel kell lepaktálniuk Telex     2024-12-16 19:02:22     Film Kormos Anett A Hogyan tudnék élni nélküled? forgatókönyvírója a műsorban arról mesélt, hogy miért nem szereti, ha a nézők azon rágódnak, államilag támogatott-e egy film, és hogy miért zavarja, hogy a kultúrában minden át lett politizálva. Készül a Zalatnay Sarolta életéről szóló film NLC     2024-12-17 04:44:18     Film Dokumentumfilm Zalatnay Sarolta Már biztos, hogy film fog készülni a 77 éves Zalarnay Sarolta életéről. A Vörös Sarolta című dokumentumfilm ugyanis zöld utat kapott. Juronics Tamás ma már beszélhet róla: életmentő műtéten esett át Story     2024-12-17 09:45:58     Bulvár DWTS A Dancing with the Stars egyik élő adásában érezte, valami nincs rendben. Másnap reggel meg is operálták. Most azért beszél róla, hogy felhívja a figyelmet: egy felnőtt embernek figyelnie kell magára. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Katia  Katia Nosenko  Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker.  It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2 Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965. Stream System by Gerald Murnane The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese  Nadja by Andre Breton Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira 10.Ava by Carol Maso 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai  translated by George Szirtes 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell Look forward to: Shimmering details by Peter Nadas Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol Salt Line by Youval Shimoni Daniel Davis Wood  https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/ Upcoming from Splice   - Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024) Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024) Highlights of 2023 Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books  Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild  Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem  Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy James Salter - Light Years  Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet  Amy Hempel - Collected stories.  2024 Recommendations  Blake Butler - Molly  Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis  Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024) Iain Smith  2023 Highlights  Divine Days Leon Forrest  Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor   Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso  Antagony  - Luis Goytisolo  Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring  The Combinations - Louis Armand  A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley  White Dialogues - Bennett Simms  2024  Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek Chevengur -  Andrei Platonov Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details  Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante  Marshland - Otohiko Kaga  The Mind Crimes of August  Saint - Alain Arias- Mission Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer  Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright  Invidicum - Michael Brodsky  Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge Adam Biles - Feeding Time  Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER Ali Millar  Best of 2023 Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards  Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward  Oliver Mol - Trainload  Ali's book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit  A.V. Marrachini  Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol  The Japanness in Architecture  10th Century Han Poetry  Hanging Out -  Sheila Liming Balzac  Sublunar - Harald Voetmann Mark A Henry  The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider  Late -  Michael Fitzgerald  Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut  Peter Orner  Light in August - Falkner Tom Drury - The Driftless Area  Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve  Taylor Johnson - Inheritance  Looking forward to reading  Virginia Woolf - The Waves Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory  Black Paper - Teju Cole

War defies simple words, it's the time when we turn to poets to make sense of the incomprehensible. In this FRDH podcast, host Michael Goldfarb speaks with award-winning British poet George Szirtes who has written more than two dozen poems so far trying to make sense of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In this wide ranging half-hour conversation they talk about poetry, form, and the difference between how Central and Eastern Europeans experience history from those of us in the West. And also read poems, lots of poems.

In Hungary, voters will go to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán gets a fourth consecutive term in office. It will be Europe's first parliamentary election since Russia invaded Ukraine and Mr Orbán has often been criticised for his close links to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Justin Webb reports from Budapest on how the war has overshadowed the election. Also on the programme was Zoltan Kovac, the Secretary of State for International Communications in the Orbán government. Justin also looked back at the history of Russia's relationship with Hungary and how the Soviet Union crushed an uprising in 1956. He spoke with poet and refugee George Szirtes who was forced to flee. (Image Credit: Tom Smithard)

Seth on Twitter @wastemailing Instagram @wastemailinglist wastemailinglist@gmail.com https://wastemailinglist.substack.com Gateway Books: House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer 2.Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 3.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Currently Reading: 1. Anniversaries: A Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Anticipated Reads: 1. William T Vollmann 2. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 3. Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter 4. A Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine translated by Ralph Manheim 5. Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet 6. Devil House by John Darnielle 7. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 8. Malina by Ingborg Bachman translated by Philip Boehm 9. The Complete Works of Primo Levi compiled by Ann Goldstein Top 10: 10. I'm Thinking of Endings Things by Iain Reid 9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 7. Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes 6. The Burrow by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann 5. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 4. Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter 3. Story of the Eye by George Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugrochal (Correction (1:11:30) - Seth refers to the narrator's love interest as Marcelle where he meant to say Simone. Marcelle is a secondary character in the story.) 2. The Recognitions by William Gaddis 1. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

Mattho Mandersloot is a literary translator working from Korean into English and Dutch. He holds a degree in Classics from King's College London and one in Translation from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has won the Korea Times' 51st Modern Korean Literature Translation Award, the World Literature Today Translation Prize and the Oxford Korean Poetry Translation Prize. In July 2021, we welcomed Mattho to Norwich for a month-long residency with support from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. During his residency he worked on Choi Jeongrye's final collection of poetry, Net of Light, alongside award-winning poet and translator George Szirtes. In this conversation between Matthow and George, they discuss the intricacies of language, the power of K-pop, the rise in popularity of Korean studies, and how Mattho's love of taekwondo led him to a career in literary translation. Find out more about what we do: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ Hosted by Steph McKenna. Music by Bennet Maples.

Ryan Alexander - Twitter @ryanhasbadtaste - Instagram @therepublicofbadtaste Vollmannia podcast @vollmannia coming in 2022 Gateway Books - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Hamlet - Goosebumps - Salem's Lot - Arguably - Christopher Hitchens TBR · The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Jennifer L. Croft · The Plains, Inland, A Million Windows, Border Districts by Gerald Murnane · Doppelgänger, Leica Format, Trieste, Belladonna, EEG by Daša Drndić; translated by S.D. Curtis, Celia Hawkesworth, and Ellen Elias-Bursać · Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Michael Hulse and Anthea Bell · Mr. Theodore Mundstock, The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks; translated by Iris Urwin and Eva M. Kandler · Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowicki; translated by Madeline G. Levine · Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet · Like a Tear in the Ocean, Vols. I-III by Manès Sperber; translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon · The Book of Blam, The Use of Man, Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma; translated by Michael Henry Heim, Bernard Johnson, and Richard Williams · A Dreambook for Our Time, A Minor Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki; translated by David Welsh and Richard Lourie · Nostalgia, Blinding, Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu; translated by Julian Semilian and Sean Cotter · Kin by Miljenko Jergović; translated by Russell Scott Valentino - Frost by Thomas Bernhard; translated by Michael Hofmann · The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska · Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon · Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler's Bible, Hind's Kidnap by Joseph McElroy Top 10 10. Women and Men by Joseph McElroy 9. The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova 8. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie by Borislav Pekić; translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakić 7. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell; translated by Charlotte Mandell 6. Beloved by Toni Morrison 5. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 4. Ice by Anna Kavan 3. Rising Up and Rising Down, Vol I: Three Meditations on Death, The Days of the Niblungs, Definitions for Lonely Atoms by William T. Vollmann 2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 1. Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville

George Szirtes arrived in Britain at the age of eight, wearing only one shoe. It was 1956, and as the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, George and his family fled on foot across the border to Austria, eventually ending up (with many others) as refugees in London. It was such a hasty journey that one of his shoes got lost on the way. From a very early age, he wanted to be a poet – and he has certainly fulfilled that ambition over the last forty years, publishing close to 20 books of prize-winning poetry, and as many translations from Hungarian literature. His moving memoir, The Photographer at 16, won the James Tait Black Prize and was recently broadcast on Radio 4. George talks to Michael from his house in Wymondham, an old butcher’s shop which he and his wife, the artist Clarissa Upchurch, have decorated with dramatic murals. He discusses his memories of leaving Hungary, walking across the border, and about how he then went further back, reconstructing his mother’s incarceration in concentration camps during the War. He explains too the project of writing a poem every day on Twitter, which has enlivened this strange period of lockdown. His playlist includes Tallis, Bartók, Bach, Ravel and Berlioz – as well as an early blues recording from 1931. What they all have in common, he says, is that each opened a door for him into a new world. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3

Simone Edgar Holmes presents NER writers George Szirtes, Joannie Stangeland, and Angelique Stevens reading their new work. Listen in as George Szirtes reads his poem “English Rain,” Joannie Stangeland reads her poem “Parcel,” and Angelique Stevens reads from her memoir “The Only Light We've Got”—all published in recent issues of the New England Review.

Jenny welcomes Jon Laubinger of the Film Baby Film Podcast back to the Reading Envy Pub for a chat on books, the multimedia versions they connect to, and more. We spend some time chatting about recent book awards, including more on the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. If you're not that interested in award chatter, jump ahead to 15:15. And make sure to listen to the end for information on one Reading Envy guest who had a movie made from his work!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 172: The It Book of NYC with Jon LaubingerSubscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed: The Need by Helen PhillipThe Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan SnipesSatantango by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George SzirtesFirst Light by Charles BaxterThe Devils of Loudon by Aldous HuxleyTales of the City by Armistead Maupin, read by Frances McDormandOther mentions:Booker Prize 2019The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodQuichotte by Salman RushdieNobel Prize for LiteratureFlights by Olga Tocarczuk Wings of Desire (film)Kindred by Octavia ButlerZEAL & ARDOR"We Are in the Future" - This American Life 623Interview with Rivers Solomon Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesCitizen by Claudia RankineSatantango (film)Werckmeister Harmonies (film)The Turin Horse (film)Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady StrugatskyTinkers by Paul HardingBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception by Aldous HuxleyThe Devils (film)Black Wave by Michelle TeaBeanpole (film)21 Truths About Love by Matthew DicksThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by P&V Related Episodes:Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 080 - The Wild Things Helped with Jason Roland Episode 102 - The Reading Women Reading Envy Crossover Episode  Episode 106 - Falling Asleep During Tarkovsky Films with Jon Laubinger Episode 126 - Bernice Bobs her Hair with Jon LaubingerEpisode 165 - Delightful Reads with ClaireEpisode 166 - On Brand with KarenEpisode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 170 - Permission to Read with Joshua Greer   Stalk us online:Jon's podcast website, Film Baby FilmFBF on InstagramJon at Goodreads Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

One Lark, One Horse is Michael Hofmann’s first new collection of poetry for almost two decades, and more than justifies the wait; Stephen Romer writes that Hofmann has given us ‘a handle on our own helplessness, our fecklessness and unease’, and George Szirtes more succinctly has described his writing as ‘a poetry of nerves’. He read from the new collection, and talked about it with Declan Ryan, whose pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series was published in 2014. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Valeria Luiselli talks to Laurence Scott about the desert border between Mexico and USA & capturing the sound, history and contemporary politics in her novel Lost Children Archive. The poet George Szirtes' first prose work brings his Hungarian mother superbly to life and works backwards through the years to explore the truth of being alive in the world. And Pulitzer-prize-winning short story writer Jhumpa Lahiri on her new anthology of stories from Italy, and why the Italian language releases a part of her unfulfilled by either her Bengali heritage or American upbringing. Jhumpa Lahiri has edited The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories which is out now. Valeria Luiselli's novel Lost Children Archive is out now George Szirtes' memoir The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter is out now

How far does evolution explain mental health? The psychiatrist Randolph Nesse tells Kirsty Wark that negative emotions make sense in certain situations but can become excessive. He argues that positioning disorders in light of natural selection helps explain the ubiquity of human suffering - and may help in finding new paths for relieving it. The neuropsychologist AK Benjamin investigates the boundaries of sanity and madness in his book, Let Me Not Be Mad. Through a series of consultations with patients, he explores the mind unravelling at the seams. But the question remains whether this unravelling mind belongs to the doctor or the patient. The poet George Szirtes looks at the damaging impact of international events on a single family, in his memoir of his mother Magda. The Photographer At Sixteen follows Magda from her teenage life in Hungary, through political uprisings, internment in two concentration camps and transition to life in England. He explores the effect of an unravelling world on a family's mental health. Producer: Katy Hickman

Today we chat with the renowned poet and translator George Szirtes. George was born in Hungary in 1948, and emigrated to the UK at the age of 8. In the course of his career he has produced English translations of some of the hallmarks of Hungarian literature, including Imre Madách’s Tragedy of Man, Gyula Krúdy’s Adventure of Sinbad, many works by Sándor Márai, and perhaps most notably, several novels by the esteemed contemporary writer, László Krasznahoraki.

January is a month of resolutions and fresh starts, of gyms and diets. This week Ian McMillan and guests tackle the language of Wellbeing and Self-Care. Poets are not generally known for their physical prowess, but in George Szirtes new collection 'Thirty Poets Go To The Gym' (Candlestick). What happens when famous poets from Lord Byron to John Berryman and from Emily Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop try to get into shape? What are the strongest influences on the ways we chose to live our lives? Does taking care of someone meaning letting them take care of themselves? These issues are at the heart of Kendall Feaver's new play 'The Almighty Sometimes', starring Julie Hesmondhalgh. Julie discusses her role with Ian, and also examines what wellbeing means to an actor. The poet Melissa Lee-Houghton won the Somerset Maugham Award for her debut collection 'Sunshine' (Penned in the Margins), an intensely personal collection dealing with her experience of abuse, addiction and mental health issues. Melissa discusses how she protects herself when publishing such personal work. Producer: Cecile Wright Presenter: Ian McMillan.

Artist Dave McKean on the way Paul Nash's dreams have inspired a graphic novel.Ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, Philip speaks to poet George Szirtes, who left the country as a boy in 1956, and writer Tibor Fischer, whose parents came to Britain that same year. They are joined by historians Nora Berend and Simon Hall to discuss the revolt, the history of Islam in Hungary and the political debates going on today. Paul Nash runs at Tate Britain from 26 October 2016 – 5 March 2017Dave McKean has created a graphic novel, Black Dog, based on the dreams of Paul Nash which forms part of the 14-18 Now arts programme.George Szirtes is the co-editor of the Hungarian Anthology The Colonnade of Teeth published by Bloodaxe Books and the title of his own new poetry collection is Mapping the Delta. Tibor Fischer is the author of numerous works, including the Booker Prize-nominated Under The Frog.Dr Nora Berend is Reader in European History, University of Cambridge, and author of books including At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and "Pagans" in Medieval Hungary c. 1000-c. 1300Professor Simon Hall, University of Leeds, is the author of 1956: The World in Revolt. He is giving a public lecture on The Hungarian Revolution and the Refugee Experience, 1956-2016, in Leeds on Thursday 24 November.

George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such writers as Ottó Orbán, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Ágnes Nemes Nagy. He co-edited Bloodaxe’s Hungarian anthology The Colonnade of Teeth. His Bloodaxe poetry books are The Budapest File (2000); An English Apocalypse (2001); Reel (2004), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize; New & Collected Poems (2008) and The Burning of the Books and other poems (2009), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. Bloodaxe has also published John Sears’ critical study Reading George Szirtes (2008).

Rus Like Everyone Else (Unnamed Press)Rus is a creature of habit. His mother left him an apartment and a debit card, from which he withdraws money everyday to purchase a drink at Starbucks. Until Rus is told by a government agency that his apartment is illegal and that he owes taxes. Lots of taxes. Rus panics and his cash is stolen by a smooth talking Russian submarine captain.  Meanwhile, as Rus capitulates to the demands of society and finds an office job with the help of a micro-managing new girlfriend, the neighborhood's local postal worker surveys the lives of its other residents with an omniscient eye: Mrs. Blue compulsively steals hand creams; a secretary struggles to make conversation (much less human connections); a delivery man desperately seeks to make a name for himself but struggles with his immigrant status; and an aging bachelor, hampered by extreme paranoia, will finally have the chance to meet the Queen (if he can just hold it together long enough). With Rus at the head of this lonely ensemble's search for meaning in a complicated and alienating world, debut novelistBette Adriaanse weaves together intersecting lives to create a mini-epic, one that charts a hidden resistance to corporate sameness and artificial relationships.Praise for Rus Like Everyone Else"This is a great book. I thought this was the freshest, most unusual writing I'd come across in years. Bette will win awards; but meanwhile continue to write and create and freak me out with her ingenuity and a voice that is unique, a gift."--Marti Leimbach, author of Dying Young and The Man From Saigon "Bette Adriaanse has concocted a blend of Rear Window and Under Milk Wood, a world in which various inhabitants of a neighborhood are not only observed but intimately known by a girl with a blonde ponytail whose task is to deliver post. The episodes are brief, short hooks in the narrative to increase the mystery. The whole is elegant and tantalizing."--George Szirtes, T.S. Eliot Prize winning author of Reel "In the lives of Rus and the other 'ordinary' characters around him, Bette Adriaanse has created something quite extraordinary. Drawing on the best European traditions of the fabulous and the absurd, she has invented a shimmering narrative world which is entirely her own - hallucinatory, dream-like and utterly real. Told with verve and wit, warmth and deep pathos, Rus Like Everyone Else is a highly original contemporary fable for our times: Adriaanse's is a singular new vision and voice and one we are surely going to hear more of." Jane Draycott, author of The Night Tree "Everyday life gets a dose of unruly energy in Adriaanse's debut novel, which follows a cluster of eccentric characters throughout the neighborhood they all share. Adriaanse takes a hard look at the people we see and ignore most days--the postal workers, the secretaries, the strange old men next door--and imagines rich inner lives for them all, creating a book at once rowdy and sympathetic, an absurd panorama that somehow seems truer the stranger it gets. Rus Like Everyone Else isn't like anything else."--Benjamin Rybeck, Marketing Director at Brazos BookstoreBette Adriaanse is a writer and a visual artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1984. Bette graduated from the Image and Language department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2008 and received her M.A. in creative writing from Oxford University in 2010. She has published fiction in magazines for literature and philosophy, and she exhibits her visual work internationally. Rus Like Everyone Else is her first novel. She lives in London.Gallagher Lawson is a graduate of U.C. Riverside's Palm Desert M.F.A. program. He has worked as a travel writer and technical writer, and plays classical piano. He lives in Los Angeles. The Paper Man is his first novel. 

In episode four of the Man Booker Prize Podcast, we travel to Scotland for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. We join Hungarian-British poet and translator George Szirtes and festival director, Nick Barley, to discuss fiction in translation and the appeal of this year's Man Booker International winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai. George even composes a new ode to Laszlo in tweet form. Host Joe Haddow also speaks with writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes about writing female characters and judging the prize in 2013 (and becoming an honorary Kiwi as a result). Last, but not least, we join musician, DJ and self-confessed bookworm Ana Matronic (of Scissor Sisters fame), who tells all about her love of reading and fascination with robots! This is the latest in the Man Booker Prize Podcast series, an exciting look at the very best from the world of books. Join the conversation at @ManBookerPrize and #FinestFiction.

Anna Menyhért (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) ) Abstract Hungarian literary history tends to forget about women writers, they are not included in school curricula, even if they had been well known and highly appreciated in their own times. Anna Menyhért's book Női irodalmi hagyomány (Women's Literary Tradition) was the first to explore the reasons for the amnesia. Her talk will introduce the book, participants can read and discuss Hungarian women poets in translations by George Szirtes made specially for the occassion. Anna Menyhért is an academic and a writer, a researcher at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She used to be the vice president of the European Writers's Council. Her research interests include women's literature, 20th century literature, cultural studies, gender studies, trauma studies, (digital) memory studies. She is the head of the Trauma and Gender in Literature and Culture Research Group. The research group works on a webpage of 20th century Hungarian women writers similar to today's social media pages. Anna Menyhért's publications include Women's Literary Tradition (Női irodalmi hagyomány, 2013) and Speaking the Unspeakable: Trauma and Literature (Elmondani az elmondhatatlant: Trauma és irodalom, 2008). She has published a volume of poetry and several books for children as well. She has recently finished writing the fictional biography of Renée Erdős, a 20th century Hungarian women writer. Further information http://www.menyhertanna.hu http://www.mannamesek.hu CRASSH is not reponsible for the content of external websites

Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature Intro Music; In The Summertime - Rural Alberta Advantage What We're Reading Jenn [1:15] Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens [3:15] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell [4:45] The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare Preeti [5:30] The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine [5:45] Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe [9:05] Night of the Living Deadpool, Cullen Bunn Dustin [11:15] The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle [11:50] Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva, Christopher Whyte [12:50] This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein [14:30] Songs of the Dying Earth, eds. George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois [16:30] Collected Poems, W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson --- Intermission; Intermission (West Side Story) --- International Literature [17:40] Jenn's sad pie-chart [22:45] Russian sci-fi: Victor Pelevin, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, Sergei Lukyanenko [25:10] My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard [26:50] A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard, James Anderson [27:45] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust [29:45] Publishers of literature in translation: Archipelago Books (Knausgaard in hardcover), Dalkey Archive Press, Melville House, FSG, Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum Publishing, And Other Stories Publishing, New Vessel Press, Europa Editions [31:45] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi [32:20] Mary Stewart's Arthurian Saga [33:25] Alina Bronsky, Elena Ferrante [34:10] Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Walter Benjamin [37:15] Lauren Beukes [38:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko [39:30] One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez [40:15] Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman [41:20] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (character chart via Vulture) [42:50] Salman Rushdie [44:35] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz [46:55] Kenzaburo Oe [47:30] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto [49:50] Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Christian Wiman, Osip Mandelstam [51:30] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic; The Snail on the Slope); Sergei Lukyanenko [52:25] Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Juan Jose Saer: The Autumn of the Patriarch, La Grande, Scars [52:20] Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; The Reluctant Fundamentalist) [53:45] War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes [55:15] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi [56:10] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto [56:50] Pluto, Naoki Urasawa [57:30] The Infatuations, Javier Marias; Your Face Tomorrow [59:10] The Pearl Series, New Directions: Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico, Javier Marias [59:35] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin [1:00:10] The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo [1:01:15] Translators on translation: Edith Grossman, Why Translation Matters; Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos; The Man Between, Michael Henry Heim --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Next book club pick: What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order to get 10% off from WORD Bookstores! Find Us Online: Dustin, Jenn, Preeti Order Josh's book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

George Szirtes discusses his work and developments in Hungarian culture and politics with Yusaf Akhbar and Carl Rowlands

Translation threads its way into so much of our lives that we sometimes forget to notice it. In this event at Free Word Centre, Asymptote, the international journal of literary translation, celebrate their third anniversary with a lively discussion of the way that language and translation work together. Award-winning translator Ros Schwartz chairs panellists Aamer Hussein, George Szirtes and Boyd Tonkin.

The SPL caught up with George Szirtes at the StAnza poetry festival in March, 2013. In town to read from his new collection Bad Machine (Bloodaxe), George Szirtes spoke to Colin Waters about memory, photography, Twitter and 1960s garage pop. Photo by Caroline Forbes.

Poets Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes on their poems inspired by Titian's interpetations of Ovid.

“It’s almost as though my poetry is an extended passport application… It’s an attempt to be naturalized. I think I’ve failed to be naturalized and therefore there is this German residue about things. It’s something I feel haunted by…” I’m delighted that the first poet to appear on Podularity is Michael Hofmann. I’ve known Michael for several years and greatly admire his work as a translator, but his poetry has been a comparatively recent – and very pleasurable – discovery for me. George Szirtes, reviewing Michael’s Selected Poems in the Guardian recently, said of his work: In the programme we talk about Michael’s relationship with the German and English languages and how he moves between the two; his relationship with his late father, the German novelist, Gert Hofmann, which forms the explicit or implicit subject matter of much of his poetry: ‘these two men meet up to divide the world between them and this is how it goes: my father gets prose in German and I get poetry in English, and we each go away …