What the reviewers said

Independent review journals, an international poetry congress, and readers on Amazon. Nothing here is paid placement.

"Tomeo strikes me as not just a brilliant poet but also a daring thinker who boldly stands up on a subject which is seldom talked about."

Ephantus M. · Pacific Book Review

✓ Notable Book

Recommended

US Review of Books · My Cemetery Friends

✓ Reviewed

Excellent Merit

Hollywood Book Reviews · My Cemetery Friends

✓ Awarded

Best Overall Free Verse

United Poets Laureate International · World Congress of Poets, Bangkok, 2018

✓ For "I Visited the Grave of Marine Michael D. Glover"

Honorable Mention

Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Competition

✓ International

Sculpted in marble

"A View from a Tower in Calabria, Italy", carved into stone in Italy

✓ Italy

4.7 ★
from 50 ratings on Amazon

4.6 ★
from 36 ratings for the chapbook

135
public readings, at home and abroad

Take the walk yourself

Start with the garden. My Cemetery Friends is in paperback now, and the hippopotamus poems are a short, funny follow-up for anyone who needs one.

$7.11 · paperback · 80 pages · 50 ratings at 4.7 stars

ISBN-13 978-1778833526 · Bookside Press · May 13, 2024

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