The Extasie

Overview

Eleventh Carcanet collection from New Zealand poet John Gallas, following 2017's The Little Sublime Comedy.

Author Biography

John Gallas was born in New Zealand in 1950. He came to England in the 1970s to study Old Icelandic at Oxford and has since lived and worked in York, Liverpool, Upholland, Little Ness, Rothwell, Bursa, Leicester, Diyarbakir, Coalville, and Markfield as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published by Cold Hub Press (NZ) and Agraphia (Sweden), and The Little Sublime Comedy was his tenth Carcanet collection. He is the editor of two books of translations—52 Euros and The Song Atlas—also published by Carcanet.