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The colophon reads, "Fragments is published in an edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist, including 26 copies signed and lettered by the translator." A loose sheet with extracts from letters by Attila József, also translated by Morgan, is included.

The 'fragments' – the shortest is a single line, the longest seven – concern love, grief and poetry. They contain striking images, sometimes drawn unconsolingly from the natural world: "Over the garden, exuding a monstrous nothing, / the baal of abundance broods"; other lines profess wonder at the industrial world: "… here I am standing in the lee of the ironworks / under moon and sky, dumb, outclassed".

The 'fragments' (minus Byrne's illustrations) are included in Attila József: Sixty Poems (2001), in a different sequence.

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Attila József Fragments

1990s

The colophon reads, "Fragments is published in an edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist, including 26 copies signed and lettered by the translator."

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