“Birds in a Boneyard” is a 2025 poetry chapbook by Frank William Finney, published by Bainbridge Island Press. It features poems exploring themes of memory, mortality, and decay through a gothic lens, often featuring imagery like ravens and abandoned structures.
Content: The collection focuses on mortality, time’s passage, and the beauty in decay, characterized by a raw, honest tone.
Imagery: Features vivid scenes, including ravens on tombstones, reflecting human fragility,
“darker territories of loss, disappointment, and the relentless passage of time. With a gothic sensibility that finds beauty in decay and meaning in transience.”
Publisher: Bainbridge Island Press (2025).
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Author Bio:
Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts. He is the author of Birds in a Boneyard (Bainbridge Island Press, 2025), The Folding of the Wings (Finishing Line Press, 2022), and two collections published in Thailand. His poems have appeared in numerous publications in print and online including Bitter Melon Review, The Frogmore Papers, Orbis, Seventh Quarry Press, The Poetry Lighthouse, Slipstream, Viridine Literary and The Wells Street Journal. His collections Wormwood Punch and Preludes to Lethe are forthcoming.
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