András Gerevich

Gerevich grew up in Budapest, Dublin and Vienna. He graduated with a major in English Language and Literature and a minor in Aesthetics at the Eötvös University of Budapest (ELTE). Later he was a Fulbright student at Dartmouth College in the United States, and received his third degree in screenwriting from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. Before becoming a poet, he wrote scripts for animated shorts. From 2006 to 2009 he was the president of József Attila Kör (JAK), the Hungarian Young Writers Association. He edited the literary journals Kalligram and Chroma. He has taught at the Milestone Institute in Budapest since 2014.[1]

It is one of the most difficult things in the world to write poems so clear, so pellucid, so free of metaphor and simile as to be almost pure speech. Everything depends on narrative shape and tone because there is little else. András Gerevich’s poems are like that. They are mostly about love, desire, and passion; a little like a diary, a little like a letter, a little like a confessional, the first person singular being at the centre of each. But there is nothing self-indulgent about them. In that respect they are reminiscent of Catullus on the one hand and Cavafy, in some moods, on the other. It is the range and precision of emotion that gives them their necessary independence: voice becomes free-standing sculpture, moving, elegant, beautiful. The poems enter English with a lightness, almost unannounced, as immediately recognisable feelings that make their own space and hold it as naturally as if they always belonged there.

— George Szirtes

His poetry features homoerotic themes,[2][3] and he has written about the importance of children's literature that includes gay people.[4]

• Milestone institute faculty bio
• McDaniel College faculty bio
• Selected poems, translated into English