Alexander Aseevsky: This is not only a lyrical report from youth to the days when you can say that “all my best years have flown away”, this is not only secretly ardent and pure declarations of love sent to us as a gift of nature, speech, space , this is also similar to prayer (not at all blasphemous, on the contrary!), it is a reprimand of the soul, when, having uttered a word, it feels freedom and a touch of invisible eternity. I know, I know that some readers of Galina Talanova’s poems re-read them from memory, because they find in them something similar to their destiny, because for them these poems are a talisman and a conspiracy for their life and destiny... To be brief , then we can say absolutely honestly about Galina Talanova’s poetry - it is saturated with the currents of a pure heart and - I can’t resist even making pompous comparisons - is like a crystal stream spilling and flowing somewhere on our endless Russian plains. Her convincing focus on the most important manifestation of humanity - love, lonely, unrequited, sometimes crying, sometimes ascending to heaven, the love of a woman's heart - these are those pages in the poetic kingdom that no one will ever get tired of reading. You just need to accept with the same open heart what is said by those chosen ones who have been granted to bring to humanity a golden dream about the most beautiful thing that exists in the world. Lyudmila Sipko: The aphorism of many of Galina Talanova’s poetic lines is obvious. This is another proof of her extraordinary poetic talent. Her works are filled with original artistic means, among which the main role is played by metaphors: a tear-stained square of a window, a lead cloud of phrases, buckets of palms, sticky heat, joints of graying aspens, a straw of sadness, a greenhouse of the soul and many others.