The Budapest File by Géorge Szirtes
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Szirtes spent his early childhood in Hungary before coming to England as a refugee, but it wasn't until 1984 that he began to write about his native city and the experience of leaving. Budapest has since become a persistent presence in his work, a spectral place full of 'voices, words, stenches, scents' and desire 'pulled like a tooth'. The Budapest File is like no other book, gathering poems on Hungarian themes from all Szirtes' collections, exploring universal issues of loss, danger and exile.
