Thousandfold by Nina Bogin Kristiina Ehin as Semmens put it in

as Semmens put it in one of the poems

Szirtes’ homage to Philip Larkin presents an abject figure striving to get fit:

diction versus talk

and habitat destruction with a poet's sensibility

Thousandfold by Nina Bogin Kristiina Ehin as Semmens put it inNina Bogins Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extra ordinary people and moments the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ancestors to the equally unfathomable future of descendants, between which there fluctuates a present that is no less elusive, even as the poet gives it a structure