“Steven Nightingale's collection of sonnets is finely wrought and full of light. Formally elegant, this book is testimony to a life richly lived. The sonnet , as Neruda has famously reminded us, is a little house. The ninety nine poems in 'The Planetary Tambourine' are a fine addition to the tradition. Many are poems of marriage and familial love, transformative, healing, good.”
--MARY O’MALLEY, Irish Poet, author of A Perfect V (forthcomng) Knife in the Water (2001), Asylum Road (2000), Where the Rocks Float (1993), and Silk (1990).