Some Frosties in a Row

This is a poetic journey. Working around and through the form of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" I began writing poems. The form was difficult and restrictive, at first, and then it became easy and liberating. Finally I felt like I had exhausted it, and I needed something more substantive. That's when I turned to the sonnet. But this book is my journey, which actually began with the limerick, to the sonnet. It was a fun trip so I'm sharing it.

Tom Matkin was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta. He spent two years in France, on an LDS mission, learned the law in Edmonton and then settled back in Cardston in 1975 where he and his wife Betty have raised their children and grown old. He likes to write poetry and this book is a chronicle of an experiment he did a few years ago with a certain poetic form.