https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2009/06/censoring.html?showComment=1246531077087
George Szirtes: Censoring
The house is strangely quiet after our three good friends left today. I chauffeured each to the station as and when, in between helping C pu...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2014/01/notes-from-discussion-on-indeterminacy.html?showComment=1390234391075
George Szirtes: Notes from a Discussion on Indeterminacy in Poetry
Image from Deviant Art A couple of days ago there was an interesting and, at times, quite passionate discussion initiated by the Amer...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-night-is-dave-allen-18.html?showComment=1245827670024
George Szirtes: Sunday night is... Dave Allen (18 certificate) and a postman
The man (Dave Allen)... ...is smoking a cigarette. If you are under eighteen, look away now.. Liverpool Primary Care Trust wants any new fil...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2011/02/reel-ed-altre-poesie.html
George Szirtes: Reel ed altre poesie
From the comments to the post beneath: Are you being generous towards others in what you write and the information you provide, what is...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2009/12/sunday-night-is-noel-coward.html
George Szirtes: Sunday Night is... Noel Coward
Coward in 1955 on American TV absolutely ripping through 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'. The man is just too too brilliant, dear boy. His timing ...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2010/05/little-more-laws-plus-triesman.html
George Szirtes: A little more Laws plus Triesman
I might have added - should have added - that the damage to individuals is only half the story. The Mail on Sunday's piece of 'investigative...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2010/05/farewell-to-creative-writing-at-art_12.html?showComment=1281970786383
George Szirtes: Farewell to Creative Writing at the Art College 7: the students
After this I will put up one more post which will consist of some contributions from past students together with any last reflections. When...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2011/06/at-paszab-with-parno-graszt-2.html
George Szirtes: At Paszab with Parno Graszt 2
The car works its way through one relatively prosperous small town, then the buildings thin out. Fields of maize. Apple orchards. Signs for ...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2011/08/train-drain.html
George Szirtes: Train drain
I am on the Birmingham to Ely train. The joys, the joys! The train to Birmingham was twenty-five minutes late. I rush from platform to platf...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-clarissas-birthday.html?showComment=1390729318342
George Szirtes: On Clarissa's Birthday:
In the Hotel Room for Clarissa In the hotel room, in the dim lamplight, in her black slip, she turned her head this way and t...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2011/02/from-field-to-form-3-skating-apostles.html?showComment=1298971380499
George Szirtes: From Field to Form 3: The skating apostles
One might well ask what it is about certain passages of prose that make them seem like poetry. Is it some quality of language? Alliteratio...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2012/09/sunday-night-ispussyriot-krasznahorkai.html
George Szirtes: Sunday night is...Pussy Riot, Krasznahorkai and Reggae
Time goes so extraordinarily fast. Yesterday I was writing the introduction to Catechism , the Pussy Riot anthology. I don't have a po...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2014/01/notes-from-discussion-on-indeterminacy.html?showComment=1390208688027
George Szirtes: Notes from a Discussion on Indeterminacy in Poetry
Image from Deviant Art A couple of days ago there was an interesting and, at times, quite passionate discussion initiated by the Amer...
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https://georgeszirtes.blogspot.com/2011/08/tribulations-of-arsene.html
George Szirtes: The tribulations of Arsene
So it was 8-2. Eight! It was C who first looked for the result on the mobile phone while we were away yesterday. She showed it to me and a...
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https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/news/photographer-sixteen-george-szirtes-shortlisted-2020-james-tait-black-prize-biography/
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN by George Szirtes is shortlisted for the 2020 James Tait Black Prize...
Feb 24, 2026 - Many congratulations to George Szirtes, whose hybrid work of biography and memoir about his mother's life and the Holocaust, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN: THE