George Szirtes fled to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to arrival in England as a young child. These are poems relating to country, identity, memory, belonging, war and upheaval. The book includes a sequence of poems extending these themes into the present situation of living in a country under siege from coronavirus. George Szirtes is one of Britain's leading poets, winner of many awards including the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize.
