About George Szirtes and The Manhattan Review

Today's poem is "Maternal"

from The Manhattan Review

George Szirtes's twelfth book of poems, Reel (2004) won the T S Eliot Prize for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His latest is Fresh Out of the Sky (2021). His memoir The Photographer at Sixteen (2019) was awarded the James Tait Black Prize in 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a co-winner of the International Booker translator's prize.
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"The Wolf Reader"
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George Szirtes's Website.
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About The Manhattan Review:

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