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Sat 03 Mar 2005Negotiating the dark corridors of history
Poetry: This latest collection from the Hungarian-born poet, George Szirtes, which has won him the T.S. Eliot Prize for 2004, begins with a dedication that signals the task with which much of the book will concern itself: to traverse generations, and to straddle worlds.
"To the ghost of childhood," writes Szirtes, "and the body of the adult."
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