József Bíró is a significant figure in contemporary Hungarian visual poetry. Before his Self Acting, he had already published six opuses: Sense of Space, Venus Flytrap, Mouth Lock, Repast, Asia, Mirror Bonfire. All were published by major publishers such as Magvető, Új Mandátum and Hungarovox. It was therefore an honour for the author as a regular contributor to the Castle Street Workshop to make the material for this volume available to us.

After this book of visual poems further volumes were published to mention just a few:

THE DEATH OF MY DEATH [EIGHT BOOK]S - [selected and recent poems/1973 - 2003] (2008)

STROMATOLITE – [FIVE BOOKS] - [ selected poems/2003 - 2013] (2014)

WELL - [visual poems] - [REDFOXPRESS – IRELAND]

FROM A to Z - [ visual poems] - [REDFOXPRESS – IRELAND] (2018)

BITTERSWEET (2018)

AT THIS TIME (2018)

EO IPSO (2019)

Thus his volume published here is an integral part of a life's work.

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József Bíró Self Acting