Overview
Two different paths are taken in the latest collection of poetry by John Gallas, which comprises two volumes in one. Reflecting the poet’s fascination with eastern literature, which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, The Coalville Divan ponders a number of themes and uses the great scripts of Persian sages to create moral, miniature movies to return a proverb to the particular lives, moments, and places that made it. Excellent Men focuses on different subjects such as Samuel Beckett, Frederico Fellini, and Alfred Schnittke, providing some of the lit-up males of a writer’s heart, claimed by admiration, kinship, amazement, love, poetry, and a good laugh.Author Biography
John Gallas is the author of Flying Carpets over Filbert Street, Grrrrr, Practical Anarchy, Resistance Is Futile, and The Song Atlas: A Book of World Poetry.
