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.