Ágnes Lehóczky Explained

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

Biography

Early life and education

Lehóczky completed her master's degree in English and Hungarian Literature at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary in 2001 and completed a Master of Arts with distinction in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2006. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Critical and Creative Writing, also from the University of East Anglia, which she obtained in July 2011. Lehóczky is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield, Co-Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield, and Contributing Advisor to Blackbox Manifold literary journal.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Career

Lehóczky has published five poetry collections and several pamphlets in English, co-edited three major international poetry anthologies in the United Kingdom, and is the author of an academic monograph on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy. She also has three poetry collections in Hungarian, published in Budapest, Hungary. Lehóczky has collaborated in various art projects with writers, photographers, composers, musicians, theatre performers, publishers, academics, and translators, including Denise Riley, Adam Piette, Terry O'Connor, Nathan Hamilton, J.T. Welsch, Zoë Skoulding, Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese, Jenny Hval, George Szirtes, Andrew McDonnell, Sian Croose, Jonathan Baker, Henriette Louwerse, Harriet Tarlo, Honor Gavin, Astrid Alben, Amanda Crawley Jackson, Katharine Kilalea, and S.J. Fowler.

In collaboration with the Writers’ Centre Norwich and The Voice Project, her libretto was commissioned for Proportions of the Temple and performed in 2011. In partnership with Citybooks, the University of Sheffield, and deBuren in Brussels, Lehóczky's work Parasite of Town, a prose poem sequence on Sheffield, was published and translated into Dutch and French in 2011.

Her recent work of collaboration, Fission of Being – Endnotes on Earthbound, was curated by the Roberts Institute of Art in London in 2021.[8]

Lehóczky’s poetry has been widely anthologized in the United Kingdom and Hungary and has appeared in:

Her work has been translated into Polish (Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese), Bulgarian (by Nikolai Boikov), French (by Jean Portante & Michel Perquy), and Dutch (by Hans Kloos). Lehóczky’s various poems appeared in print and online in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe:

Publications

Books/ full poetry collections and recent editorial work

Pamphlets

Poetry collections in Hungarian

Academic / monograph

Recent editorial

Articles, editorial introductions

Translation

Radio

Honours and poetry awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation . Arc Publications . 2010 . 978-1906570-50-7 . 2013-10-31.
  2. Book: Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space . Macmillan . 2013-10-18. 2013-10-31 . 978-0-230-29278-9 .
  3. Web site: KÖRVONALAK AZ APISZTEMOLÓGIAI KÖDBEN . Ferencz Győző . Holmi . 2013-10-31.
  4. Web site: Maintenant #18 – Ágnes Lehóczky (Interview) . . June 28, 2010 . 2013-10-31.
  5. Web site: Poetry by Agnes Lehoczky . Ofi Press Magazine . 2013-10-31.
  6. Web site: Poet of the Month: Ágnes Lehóczky . The Missing Slate . 2013-09-19 . 2013-10-31.
  7. Web site: Poetry from sleety Wereldesend . Fortnightly Review . September 2014 . 2015-01-23.
  8. Web site: The Roberts Institute of Art .

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