last fastness

About the Book

Terse and concise or rambling and hypnotic, poetry finds the music in language. Building pictures from sound, layering obvious over oblique on obscure, it secretes multiple levels of meaning for the seeking. If a picture is worth a thousand words the goal of a single word is to create a whirl of images. Reducing, condensing, saying more with less: making music in the flow of the words.

About the Author

FRANK WILLIAM TALEN has been creating poetry since his teengage years and has appeared in numerous anthologies. His previous collection is Th e Draftsman’s Dream (Access Press, 1997). In last fastness he shares his quirky observations of the natural world and society. His keen ear for language is at its most powerful in his depiction of the interplay between internal and external landscapes. Frank lives in a Perth coastal suburb with his adopted cat Boonie.