RESCHEDULED: WORD! WITH GEORGE SZIRTES AND FRIENDS: POETRY FESTIVAL SPECIAL

RESCHEDULED! We're delighted to have a NEW DATE for this event: Monday November 14

About WORD! with George Szirtes and friends

Join George Szirtes and friends for this much anticipated, Po-Fest-tastic, postpandemic first one back in Beeston WORD! Poet, translator, biographer and former International Booker Prize judge, George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest, and came to England following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. His many awards include: the Faber Prize, TS Eliot Prize and the International Booker Translators’ Prize (twice).

 George will be joined by WORD!’s Lydia Towsey and the acclaimed Panya Banjoko, author of the recently released (Re)Framing the Archive (Burning Eye Books, 2022).

To perform on the open mic, email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk.

“Szirtes is increasingly revealed as a major English poet - one of those in whom insight and technique combine to focus more and more productively as the years go by.” Hugh Macpherson, Poetry Review

“I know of no other poet who combines activism and archive the way that she does.” Henderson Mullen, Writing East Midlands, on Panya Banjoko

 Tickets £8 / Concessions £6

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