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.