George Szirtes reads two extracts from his long poem-sequence 'Metro' from the DVD-book IN PERSON: 30 POETS, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce & edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). Pamela has been filming poets reading their work for Bloodaxe's archive, website and DVD-books. We filmed George Szirtes at his home in Norfolk in November 2007. 'Metro' is published in full in his NEW & COLLECTED POEMS (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to Britain with his family as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. Haunted by his family’s knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, his poetry covers universal themes: love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; humanity and truth. The extracts he reads from 'Metro' in the film are from part of the sequence where he tries to make sense of his mother’s betrayal and removal to the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbrück.