Ágnes Lehóczky’s second collection consists of five sequences of prose poems exploring memory, place and the retreats of language. Playful, intelligent and built from words that pulsate with energetic reference and invention, her poems are concerned with how one deals with recollections encountered in a new tongue and how this process can turn against itself; how the mind might be likened to a palimpsest: an erasure of construction and deconstruction; a twisting scroll of geology, texture, surface, geography, and ideas of home. This is a fiercely contemporary poetry, with a lot to reveal to us about how we encounter our own worlds.

"Ágnes Lehóczky’s prose poem, Rememberer is serious magic. Atavistic blocks of condensed emotional intensity. A forensic probing of memory ladened with rouched echoes and unforgiving mirrors. A mesmeric and melancholic voyage of leavings and longings drowning in a language so poignant and sumptuous it makes the heart hover. Although deeply personal, Rememberer is a remembrance of all our yesterdays propelled by a fierce intelligence and deliciously wry humour. Simply stunning."
Geraldine Monk

"What I enjoy about Ágnes Lehóczky’s prose poetry is its dialogic lyricism. Her syntax carries the work of caesura and enjambment, shaping rhythmic wholes that take you back to places we’ve never been. The best of poetry does the like, and this is it."
Peter Robinson

“It is rare to find such articulate poems... an original writer with something original to say.”
George Szirtes

Ágnes Lehóczky is a prize-winning poet and translator. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection, Budapest to Babel, was published by Egg Box in 2008. She was the winner of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge, in 2011. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011. She currently teaches Creative Writing in Sheffield.