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Forced March by Miklós Radnóti, translated by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer

By John Sears

One of the functions of poetry is to express the unthinkable mixture of the horrific, the tragic and the banal that constitutes such a biography. The remarkable power of Radnóti's poems is that they succeed, repeatedly, in doing so. [9 February 2004]