Arguably the most significant modern Hungarian poet, Lajos Walder was born in 1913 and died in 1945 in the Gunskirchen concentration camp, on the day it was liberated by the Allied forces. Exuberant and witty, poignant and severe, trenchant yet light-hearted, Lajos Walder's poems cut to the quick and stay with you. Reading them is like reliving an era long gone and, at the same time, learning to see our own world with new eyes. For Lajos Walder's message speaks to us as directly today as it did to his contemporaries almost a century ago: '... that apart from thieves and murderers // there are also human beings'. For the first time, Lajos Walder's complete extant poetry is made available in English, superbly translated by the poet's daughter Agnes Walder, who also provides a beautiful afterword, and with a passionate foreword by Scots fellow poet Don Paterson.
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A poetic genius, finally available in English.
Lajos Walder's poetry is the Dom Perignon of modern poetry. His poetic bubbles capture the entire breadth of the human condition, lifting you up into the airy heights of metaphor and conceit, and taking you down into the depths of humanity's tragedies. Walder is, without a doubt, the greatest modern Hungarian poet. Read more
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