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George Szirtes
George Szirtes's many books of poetry have won various prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize (2004), for which he is again shortlisted for Bad Machine (2013). His translation of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango (2013) was awarded the Best Translated Book Award in the US. The act of translation is, he thinks, bound to involve fidelity, ambiguity, confusion and betrayal.

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Foreword: A Pound of Flesh

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Issue No. 12

George Szirtes

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Issue No. 12

1.   ANALOGIES FOR TRANSLATION ARE MANY, most of them assuming a definable something on one side of the equation – a fixed original...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

i’m running out of data on the train everyone is feeling particularly lonely it isn’t enough everyone & me     ear plugged & stirring    is listening to something considering charts & cadence of feet bounce it is likely we are listening to Drake   Drake says    sometimes i feel good sometimes i don’t   he knows that until he bursts from carbs or cliché we will love him always Drake has been on our minds now for some fourhundredtwenty weeks at least everyone & Drake is wearing t-shirts with Drake lyrics printed on them we are signing love letters and suicide notes with Drakeisms     it isn’t enough wake up mumbling something Drake drool on our pillow wonder where else still we can find traces of him we’re only now just learning   Drake says    more life more everything always more   feeding every hour on the hour all the amenities the biggest residential pool on the planet everybody in it my critics & my friends fat happy house my children & everybody loving me the pictures portrait of the artist eating    portrait of the artist in the biggest residential pool on the planet fat & happy Drake’s ear is to the zeitgeist     listening for something out there shooting his shot into space      waiting it isn’t enough to hold everybody & their faces    sing it there are so many people outside that haven’t heard it yet i don’t know if they can wait   how long Drake says     i do not know what permanence is i’m only now just learning i’m upset     doing the best that i can to be heard i need more content

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August 2014

George Szirtes

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August 2014

George Szirtes’s many books of poetry have won various prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize (2004), for which...

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

poetry

November 2013

George Szirtes

poetry

November 2013

And so they shone, every one of them, each crazy, everyone a diamond shining the way things shine, each becoming a gleam in his...
Rescue Me

poetry

November 2013

George Szirtes

poetry

November 2013

Pain comes like this: packaged in a moment of hubris with a backing band too big for its own good. It isn’t the same...

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Issue No. 8

The Lady of the House

Claire-Louise Bennett

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Issue No. 8

Wow it’s so still. Isn’t it eerie. Oh yes. So calm. Everything’s still. That’s right. Look at the rowers...

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Issue No. 3

Camera & Even After He is Gone, the Cat is Here and I Cast My Suspicions on Him

Toshiko Hirata

TR. Jeffrey Angles

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Issue No. 3

Camera You take my sweet sleeping face You take my innocent smile You take my large breasts Even though...

Interview

February 2011

Interview with David Vann

Marissa Cox

Interview

February 2011

I am a little apprehensive about meeting David Vann for the first time. His father committed suicide when David...

 

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