This first major gathering of the younger poets of Hungary witnesses to the
poetics of a new post-1989 Europe. The poetics are still in the making but
important poets appear and develop. They are writers whose mature work has
been produced in the new social, psychological and political circumstances and
they include major women poets such as Anna T. Szabó, and Krisztina Tóth as
well as highly acclaimed figures like János Térey and András Gerevich.
The translators are chiefly poets of the same generation – Owen Sheers, Antony
Dunn, Clare Pollard, Matthew Hollis and Ágnes Lehóczky, whose work sits
alongside writers long associated with the translation of Hungarian poetry:
George Gömöri, Clive Wilmer, Peter Zollman and the editor, George Szirtes.