Bad Machine by George Szirtes Maria Baranda act as a way of

act as a way of becoming

the figure of Hypnos

with journeys and transitions as their main themes

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Bad Machine by George Szirtes Maria Baranda act as a way ofThe 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