Take down his particulars - Poems 1984-2010

A poetry characterised by wit and ironic diffidence develops, in these excellent translations by Christopher Whyte, into an ever more moving, ever more personal yet fully controlled body of lyric verse lamenting loss of love, childhood and displacement. The language in them disdains easy rhetoric or high drama. Small, sharply seen details and delicate adjustments of register point beyond themselves, moving from the personal into an experience of the world that anyone might recognise. Adam Nádasdy is not to be categorised narrowly as a fine gay poet, which he undoubtedly is: he stands with the best poets who have written about love and grief. - (George Szirtes)