Fifty Poems

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This first published collection of poems by T. E. Fantl are indicative of his canny encounters of life and its personages in this insightful cross section of encounters behaviours philosophy and ... imagination.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fantl writes with descriptive passion and surgical observation. His deliciously personal journeys and characters (he often being one of them) will take the reader on riveting rides.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By profession a visual artist having lived in many countries his poetic works have until now remained very private.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The sheer variation included within these works is wide intriguing and all-encompassing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fantl's use of language is uniquely seductive as are the elements of observation witticism humour drama and danger. He writes with a profound passion for words and language plying a line as he would ply paint from the brush with the right pressure and intent.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fantl skews convention as he can because he has risen from it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He is times colloquial and always enthusiastic about the subject of each poem.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fantl writes with knowledge and credibility and the selection of poems complement each other as well as being fulfilling for the reader if read as standalone pieces.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poetry lovers and those new to reading poetry will enjoy entering and experiencing this collection.</span></p>