Many of you may have just recently heard of George Szirtes — he is one of the main translators of the Nobel Prize winner Laszlo Kraznakorkhai. But George is actually much more interesting than that. He is an exceptional poet and by that I mean not only does he write poetry but he explores poetry and all its possibilities. Back during the twitter days, he used to experiment a lot with poetry on twitter. He says he does it on facebook now so I must find him again.
George used to teach at the University of East Anglia, where I did my Masters. That’s how we know each other and he very graciously agreed to do this conversation.
We talk about poetry, experiments, translations, life, and of course Laszlo.
TRANSCRIPT:
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How has life been?
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Has things been different for you?
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I don’t want to talk about Lazlo much at all in this thing.
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It’s really about you I’m more interested in, but I’m just curious.
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Has people been treating you differently or not?
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