If you don't tell anyone, I won't either

Pat Ingoldsby was born in Malahide in 1942 and spent almost his entire life in Dublin. Pat is a multifaceted creator: poet, prose writer, playwright, artist, a person endowed with a unique surreal imagination. At the end of the 1960s,... at the dawn of his incredibly diverse creative life, he worked as a DJ on Irish radio. By that time, with his love for words, he had already written several radio scripts, followed by plays for Dublin theaters. His original children's television programs "Pat's Hat," "Pat's Babble," and "Pat's Guys" were extraordinarily popular in the 1980s.
In 1977, the first collection of his poetry, "In the Leg of Your Jacket," was published, and Pat sold over a thousand copies simply by offering books door to door. Since then, twenty-three of his collections and two audio collections have been released. Until 2015, he sold his books himself on the streets of Dublin.
In Russian, his poetry collection "The Beauty of Cracked Eyes" (1999) was published in 2020, followed by a selection from Pat's journalism (in the early 1990s he wrote a column for Dublin's "Evening Press"). In 2022, in honor of Pat's 80th birthday, the "Gorodets" publishing house released a collection of his poetry and prose titled "They Will Say Such Things in Dublin," encompassing almost half a century of his writing life.
"If you don't tell anyone..." is the fourth collection of Pat's works translated into Russian. This is yet another gift to the Russian-speaking readers who love him.