{"product_id":"mapping-the-delta-paperback","title":"Mapping the Delta - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Delta is a densely populated place. Whole countries inhabit it, exercising their powers and authority, presenting their offers of complicity and compliance. Individuals move through the night and come upon themselves in its mirrors. Dreamers and fantasists repopulate its hidden corners: Rimbaud, Bruno Schultz, William Blake, Arthur Schnitzler and the physicist Dennis Gabor lay claim to their own visions of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnimals gaze at their human companions who gaze back. They try to puzzle each other out, looking to climb into each other's eyes. They court each other, desire their own species, are captivated both by each other's and their own beauty. Life goes on its desultory way, finding itself between creeks and cracks. And occasionally the world does crack open. Planes crash, boats sink, weather changes, floodwaters rise, people vanish on journeys. Anxiety remains: disaster zones persist into old age and death, and into the life, death and resurrection of language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the core of the book is \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Room\u003c\/em\u003e, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father. The room constricts and glows. The poem breaks up across the page at intervals then reassembles into its mirrors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the poems are formal haiku sequences. They are new parts of a personal Delta. Others are in rhymed and broken stanzas. The Delta has to survive - if it survives at all - on its broken patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Book Society Choice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Szirtes\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such writers as Ottó Orbán, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and Ágnes Nemes Nagy. He co-edited Bloodaxe's Hungarian anthology \u003cem\u003eThe Colonnade of Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e. His Bloodaxe poetry books include: \u003cem\u003eThe Budapest File\u003c\/em\u003e (2000); \u003cem\u003eAn English Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e (2001); \u003cem\u003eReel\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2004; \u003cem\u003eNew \u0026amp; Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003eThe Burning of the Books and other poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. \u003cem\u003eBad Machine\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2013. \u003cem\u003eMapping the Delta\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), another Poetry Book Society Choice, was followed by \u003cem\u003eFresh Out of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBloodaxe has also published his Newcastle\/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, \u003cem\u003eFortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the sense of history as knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and John Sears' critical study, \u003cem\u003eReading George Szirtes \u003c\/em\u003e(2008). His memoir of his mother, \u003cem\u003eThe Photographer at Sixteen\u003c\/em\u003e (MacLehose Press, 2019), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. Szirtes lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer, having retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 2024 George Szirtes was named as winner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413081559277,"sku":"9781780373201","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/mapping-the-delta-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}