The Death of Galahad is one long poem. In it the Arthurian hero Galahad is a compromised contemporary of European man voyaging through Hell. His heroines, his army and his antagonist also inhabit the poem, in which the sordid and the sacred meet and the anxieties and conflicts of a failed modernity and a future ideal undergo passion, as the mind battles for new vision and a painful purification.

“The Death of Galahad is a very substantial work written in the poet’s second language with all the complexities that implies. It is at the same time full of vision, symbol and narrative detail. The poem seems to me to move between the fate of a specific individual, Galahad, a seeker after purity, and the world he is caught in which is far from pure, a ruined Europe of the spirit. The narrative is multi-layered, drawing on Arthurian legend but one is aware that this is less a historical poem than the enactment of a crisis. There are parts that are extraordinarily vivid, other parts where the voice seems to spread among the figures of the poem. Those who follow it to the end will discover a rough-hewn epic born out of a passionate and individual mind”.
– George Szirtes in George Szirtes’ Blog