Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes Enitharmon Press it proudly and passionately sets

it proudly and passionately sets the story of the Bolshevik leader’s life against the history of capitalism and the trajectory of Soviet communism

the voice is more important than the particularities of what is said – language

deficiencies and contradictions - all delivered in chromatic

These are poems – elegies

Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes Enitharmon Press it proudly and passionately setsGeorge Szirtes ingenious project of subjecting thirty canonical poets to a high intensity workout provides brilliant and often hilarious results. From Dylan Thomas falling off the treadmill after too much apple juice to Sylvia Plaths furious tirade against her trainers, the collection is a delicious roller coaster of high and low comedy. Poets from Lord Byron to John Berryman and from Emily Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop are depicted in the throes of