Amplified Silence is a mellow offering of poetry surveying a variety of natural and human landscapes both domestic and international. Egan explores life and the living in expansive depth, with vivid insight and the gentle brush of humour. In these poems, In these poems the volume-level of silence evolves to speak through life's hazy shadows with the clear-eyed awareness of a sparkling magnifying glass. Kieran Egan excels at exploring the pleasures of memory as well as the sorrows of aging, There are many diverse journeys encompassed in this book enhanced with flashes of grace and the gratitude felt by the author for a life well-lived. These poignant poems will long linger in the mind of the reader and continue to draw the reader back to open the book yet again, as time passes ... then passes again.