Fresh Out of the Sky, Paperback/George Szirtes

George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus. Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd Author(s): George Szirtes Number of pages: 160 Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 157 x 232 x 15 Cover type: Paperback / softback