Ágnes Lehóczky

Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian poet and translator born in Budapest, 1976.

She completed her Masters in English and Hungarian Literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary in 2001 and an MA with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing, also from the UEA which she obtained in July, 2011. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Sheffield.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Poetry

Lehóczky has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, ikszedik stáció (Station X) (2000) and Medalion (Medallion) (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. She was one of the translators for the anthology New Order Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, edited by George Szirtes (Arc, 2010).

Her first full collection in English, Budapest to Babel, was published by Egg Box Publishing, an independent poetry publisher run by Nathan Hamilton, in 2008. She was the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry, the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2011, and received the Bertha Bulcsu-Award (August 2012, Budapest).

Lehóczky's second collection in English, Rememberer, supported by the Arthur Welton Poetry Award, was also published by Eggbox in 2011. A third collection, Carillonneur, was published by Shearsman Books in 2014.

She wrote a libretto in 2010 commissioned by Writers' Centre Norwich which was performed by The Voice Project at Norwich Cathedral as part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2011.

Lehóczky's most recent work Parasite of Town, a sequence of prose poems on psycho-geographic aspects of Sheffield, was commissioned by Citybooks Sheffield, an EU-sponsored project in which the University of Sheffield works closely with the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren in Brussels in 2011.

Her recent Hungarian collection is Palimpszeszt: New & Selected Poems in Hungarian, with an introduction by Győző Ferencz, Budapest, Magyar Napló, 2015.

She represented Hungary at the international poetry festival, Poetry Parnassus, at the Southbank Centre in London in 2012 and her profile in the UK has been recognized in two important Bloodaxe anthologies, The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus, edited by Neil Astley and Anna Selby (2012), and Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK, edited by Nathan Hamilton (2013).

Prose

Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Edited collections

As part of Sheffield's Festival of the Mind, Lehóczky co-edited The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined, with Adam Piette, Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom (Smith/Doorstop, 2012).

References

  1. ↑ Hungarian poetry collection: "New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation". arcpublications.co.uk. 2010. ISBN 978-1906570-50-7. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  2. ↑ Zoe Skoulding chapter: "Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space". macmillan.com. ISBN 978-0-230-29278-9. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  3. ↑ Ferencz Győző. Hungarian review of monograph "KÖRVONALAK AZ APISZTEMOLÓGIAI KÖDBEN". holmi.org. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  4. ↑ "Maintenant #18 – Ágnes Lehóczky (Interview)". 3:AM M. 3ammagazine.com. June 28, 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  5. ↑ "Poetry by Agnes Lehoczky". Ofi Press Magazine. theofipress.webs.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Poet of the Month: Ágnes Lehóczky". Missing Slate journal. themissingslate.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  7. ↑ Peter Riley review of Carilloneur "Poetry from sleety Wereldesend". Fortnightly Review, September 2014. http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-23.

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