Black Holes Within Us

In her metaphysical poetry collection, Black Holes Within Us, Marta Markoska calls the universe into play, as both the context for her love and as providing a means for its expression. Her poems are full of ordinary details from everyday modern living, but are paradoxically pervaded with classical, philosophical and scientific allusions. They contain interesting and perceptive ideas -- for example, about the self, the continuous skirmishes between the sexes on topics as various as the day's meals and sexual fulfilment -- expressed in simple words and images, and are, at different levels, accessible to all.
"The salty-sweet poetic pieces which Markoska serves us, giving insight into her own poetic image of the salty-sweet universe of love, is more than a successful poetic guide through her own galaxy of poetry. This book of poetry is also a subtle poetic plunge into the "black holes within us", which every honest reader finds not only in Markoska's poetry, but also deep within themselves."
?Ivan Dzeparoski

"this book of poems ... is the result of a deeply mature search by an individual who seeks nothing more than the purest essence of its being."? Biljana Perchinkova