Ágnes Lehóczky


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.

Career

Lehóczky has published several books and 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.
Lehóczky’s poetry has been widely anthologized in the United Kingdom and Hungary and has appeared in:The World Record Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK Atlantis The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem; From Baudelaire to Anne Carson A századelő irodalma The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry Archive of the Now Hilson Hilson Nothing on Atkins Disease.
Her work has been translated into Polish, Bulgarian, French, and Dutch. 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

Apropos Paradise Square - On a Literature of Consolation Lathe Biosas, or on Dreams & Lies Swimming Pool Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters Carillonneur Rememberer
  • ''Budapest to Babel''

Pamphlets

Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters
  • ''Poems from the Swimming Pool''

Poetry collections in Hungarian

Palimpszeszt Medalion
  • ''Ikszedik stáció''

Academic / monograph

  • ''Poetry, the Geometry of Living Substance: Four Essays on the Poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy''

Recent editorial

The Song of the Cosmos – Attila József Selected Poems.A Monk Collective.The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley eds. Ágnes Lehóczky and Zoë SkouldingWretched Strangers eds. Ágnes Lehóczky and J. T. Welsch The Sheffield Anthology, Poems from the City Imagined, eds. Ágnes Lehóczky, Adam Piette, Ann Sansom, Peter Sansom

Articles, editorial introductions

  • ‘Endnotes on Disobedient Poetries, Paper Citizens, and Other Agoras,’in Wretched Strangers eds. Ágnes Lehóczky and J. T. Welsch,
  • ‘In Defence of Paradoxes: A Preface’, in The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley, eds. Ágnes Lehóczky and Zoë Skoulding,
  • ‘Scribbling In That Other Tongue,’ in Poetry Wales, April, 2012
  • ‘Conducting Cacophony,’ in In Their Own Words - Contemporary Poets on Their Poetry, eds. Helen Ivory and George Szirtes

Translation

The Song of the Cosmos – Attila József Selected Poems Poems by Denise Riley I Killed my Mother - András Visky’s play translated with Ailisha O'Sullivan New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation, ed. George Szirtes

Radio

  • BBC The Forum – a World of Ideas, with Guy Deutscher and Claude M. Steele – End of June, 2010.

Honours and poetry awards