George Szirtes has published twelve books of poetry, among them winners of The Faber Prize and the Cholmondeley Award, and he has also been shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Since his Selected Poems (Oxford University Press, 1996), Bloodaxe has published two volumes of thematic collected poems, The Budapest File (2000) and An English Apocalypse (2001), which were both named books of the year in various annual press roundups. His most recent book, Reel, (Bloodaxe, 2004) appears in November 2004 and is Poetry Book Society Choice for the Winter. George works as a prize-winning translator of both poetry and fiction, most recently of the selected poems of Agnes Nemes Nagy, The Night of Akhenaton (Bloodaxe, 2004) and Sándor Márai's novel, Conversations in Bolzano (Viking/Penguin, 2004). He has also edited the Harvill anthology, An Island of Sound: Hungarian Poetry and Fiction, before and beyond the Iron Curtain (Harvill, 2004).