My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes Penny Sharman through to tender meditations on

through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family

our lifetimes are fleeting

The collection marks an adventurous departure for a pen-and-paper poet

the fractured individual in “the thick of it” all

’ (‘Anecdote for the Birds’)

My Secret Life by Krisztina Tóth, translated by George Szirtes Penny Sharman through to tender meditations onKrisztina 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