George Gömöri was born in Budapest in 1934 but went into exile in 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution in which he played a pivotal role. He lectured at the University of Cambridge, has published eleven books of poetry in Hungarian, and has translated many Hungarian poets into English. With George Szirtes he edited The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 1996); with Clive Wilmer he translated Miklós Radnóti’s Forced March (second edition, Enitharmon, 2003), and two volumes by György Petri published by Bloodaxe Books, including Eternal Monday (1999). Three books of his poetry have appeared in English, including, most recently, Polishing October: New and Selected Poems. In 2017 he was appointed as Senior Research Associate of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
