Budapest to Babel - Tapa dura

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"It is rare to find such articulate poems about inarticulacy; poems that comprehend inarticulacy in their composition and which are, for my money, very moving ... an original writer with something original to say."
-George Szirtes

"Agnes Lehoczky draws on the poetic tradition of making language the subject of the image but complicates this intriguingly by being in two places at once; she makes herself both actor and acted upon in enjoyable strategies of investment and displacement." --Lavinia Greenlaw

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Winner of the inaugural Jane Martin Prize for Poetry.

...and I watch the oxidised stations go by slowly dozing to the sound of the fine talk in a cradle of soft sentences...through the window I spot two storks over the lake, two forgotten orthographic signs I could not read anymore written in the reeds wings open...and I notice another one and two or three more; the entire country covered with copper-beaked white storks.

The well-known Babel myth provides the backbone for the first cycle of poems and a departure point for further journeys in this, Lehoczky s first book in English. Budapest to Babel is a rewarding and focussed exploration of the difficulties and joys of encountering and engaging fully with a new language. States of confusion and chaos, playfulness and joy are all explored throughout this lively and rewarding debut.