George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. He has published many books and won various prizes including the T. S. Eliot Prize for Reel (Bloodaxe Books) in 2005. Beside his work in poetry and translation, he...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). George Szirtes won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2004 for his collection Reel (Bloodaxe Books). Judges...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published in the Poetry Book Society’s PBS Bulletin in Winter 2004/5. ‘Off to London soon to make whoopee. Well, to read three or four poems and make something: conversation mostly.’ George Szirtes’ website diary entry for the night before...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published in the Poetry Book Society’s PBS Bulletin in Autumn 2004. The dozens of manuscripts and scores of books submitted for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize spill out of two large crates in the Poetry Book Society office –...
