He has also done quite a bit of translation and photography. The title of this poetry collection, his debut, at the age of 60, reflects his willfulness and playfulness inasmuch as ‘tality’ is a neologism without an explanation. On being quizzed as to the meaning of ‘tality’, the author merely responded: “'Tality' is the summation of 18 words with tality as their suffix.” The most obvious of these 18 is perhaps ‘mortality’, but that is surely reserved for a second collection, More Tality Tales.