Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska has died aged 88, Associated Press reports.

“Her verse, seemingly simple, was subtle, deep and often hauntingly beautiful,” the report adds. “She used simple objects and detailed observation to reflect on larger truths, often using everyday images - an onion, a cat wandering in an empty apartment, an old fan in a museum - to reflect on grand topics such as love, death and passing time.”

Szymborska was born near Poznan in western Poland in 1923 and moved as a child to Krakow, where she lived until her death. She published her first poem in 1945 in a weekly supplement to the local Dziennik Polski newspaper.

Her Poems: New And Collected (translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak) is published in English by Roundhouse.