Bad Machine by George Szirtes Frank Kuppner These anarchic poems are the

These anarchic poems are the product of an original and febrile mind

twenty times

Anna Robinson

buildings and bodies

None of these poets was included in In Person: 30 Poets

Bad Machine by George Szirtes Frank Kuppner These anarchic poems are theThe body is the bad machine of George Szirtes latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly father and of his younger friend, the poet Michael Murphy, remind him how machines sources of energy and delight in their prime go so easily wrong; and that change in the body is a signal for moving on. But language too is a body. Here, politics, assimilation, desire, creatureliness and the pleasure and loss of the body, mingle in various attenuated