{"title":"Ágnes Lehóczky","description":"\u003cp\u003eÁgnes Lehóczky is an Hungarian-born poet and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, \u003cem\u003eStation X\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003eMedallion\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection, \u003cem\u003eBudapest to Babel\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2008 and her second collection, \u003cem\u003eRememberer, \u003c\/em\u003ein 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2011. She was Hungary's representative poet for Poetry Parnassus \u003cspan style=\"color: #808080;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003et\u003c\/span\u003e Southbank Centre during London’s Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, \u003cem\u003ePoetry: the Geometry of Living Substance\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars and a libretto of hers was commissioned by Writers' Centre Norwich for The Voice Project at Norwich Cathedral as part of \u0026amp; Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2011. A sequence of her prose poems \u003cem\u003eParasite of Town,\u003c\/em\u003e on psycho-geographic aspects of Sheffield, was commissioned by Citybooks Sheffield in 2011. She co-edited \u003cem\u003eSheffield Anthology; Poems from the City Imagined\u003c\/em\u003e (Smith\/Doorstop, 2012). She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Sheffield. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eÁgnes reading from \u003cem\u003eRememberer \u003c\/em\u003eat Poetry Parnassus, London, 2012. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\u003cobject style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tg4eHZCJP6U\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\u003e\r\n\u003cparam name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tg4eHZCJP6U\"\u003e\r\n\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tg4eHZCJP6U\"\u003e\r\n\u003c\/object\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-new-order","title":"The New Order","description":"The prize-winning poet and translator George Szirtes has selected work from eleven of Hungary's leading young poets for this bi-lingual anthology, the publication of which coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Wall. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first major anthology of Hungarian poetry of this generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include: \u003cb\u003eIstván Kemény\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1961), \u003cb\u003eSzilárd Borbély\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1964), \u003cb\u003eAndrás Imreh\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1966), \u003cb\u003eMónika Mesterházi\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1967), \u003cb\u003eKrisztina Tóth\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1967), \u003cb\u003eVirág Erdos\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1968), \u003cb\u003eJáos Térey\u003c\/b\u003e (b.1970), \u003cb\u003eG. 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States of confusion and chaos, playfulness and joy are all explored throughout this lively and rewarding debut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgnes Lehoczky\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1976 in Budapest. \u003ci\u003eStation X\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eMedalion\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), her first two short collections, were published in Budapest by Universitas. 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