Burning of the Books and other poems

The title-poem of George Szirtes'' The Burning of the Books and other poems is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain as a child refugee after the Hungarian Uprising. Book burning is associated with the Nazis'' burning of what they considered to be subversive books in 1933, but the practice has a long history, right down to our own day. In this particula...