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Online Event with George Szirtes

Available to all - Join us as we interviewed George Szirtes about his memoir of his mother Magda, The Photographer at Sixteen. This is an online event open to the public at £5. This event was first released in May 2021.

Online Event with George Szirtes
Online Event with George Szirtes

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George Szirtes was born in Hungary and emigrated to England with his parents—survivors of concentration and labor camps—after the 1956 Budapest uprising.

Szirtes studied painting at Harrow School of Art and Leeds College of Art and Design. At Leeds he studied with Martin Bell, who encouraged Szirtes as he began to develop his poetic themes: an engaging mix of British individualism and European fluency in myth, fairy tale, and legend. Szirtes’s attention to shape and sound, cultivated through his background in visual art and his bilingual upbringing, quickly led to his successful embrace of formal verse. In an essay in Poetry magazine defending form, Szirtes argues that “rhyme can be unexpected salvation, the paper nurse that somehow, against all the odds, helps us stick the world together while all the time drawing attention to its own fabricated nature.”

He will be talking about his memoir of his mother Magda, The Photographer at Sixteen.

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