My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes #Irishpoetry these outer bounds of our

these outer bounds of our universe are inseparable from the lives and deaths on earth

these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses

was twenty years in the making and written in Montreal

and co-author of Second Memory

These poems show us what Donna Haraway was telling us when she wrote:“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with

My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes #Irishpoetry these outer bounds of ourKrisztina Tth is one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. The recipient of many awards, she is also renowned for her fiction which has been translated into many languages including English. My Secret Life is the first translation of Krisztina Tth's poetry into English. The poems were selected by her from three of her eleven published collections, with the addition of some new or previously