“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).

Steven Nightingale proves once again that the sonnet, like rock n’ roll, will never die.

--BILLY COLLINS, U.S Poet Laureate