Reel
By: George Szirtes.
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tarset, Northumberland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Description: Memory is film in Reel: a film-crew shoot Budapest for Berlin; faces float like light on the sea; names appear and disappear on a search engine. George Szirtes reconstructs childhood from a confusion of memories, photographs and stories in which men and women change places and fathers multiply. There are sequences on love, desire and illusion, poems about political loyalties, and poems that form ghost texts shadowing other writers.