The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry

A powerful and often moving anthology, in which no challenges are shirked and no short cuts taken.

This anthology presents the work of the most important Hungarian poets born after the turn of the century, starting with the major figure of Lorinc Szabó, born in 1900. Some of the poets have worked while in exile - György Faludy and Victor Határ for example. Others, including Sádor Kányádi, are members of Hungarian minorities living outside Hungary's present borders.

Those working in Hungary include the middle generation of Ottó Orbá and Zsusza Takrcs, and younger poets with international reputations such as György Petri, known for his sharp satires and ironic elegies, and Zsuzsa Rakovszky, with her passionate and closely observed poems of everyday life.