The Little Sublime Comedy
The Little Sublime Comedy

The Little Sublime Comedy

POETRY

184 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Paperback, ebook: PDF, Mobipocket, ebook: EPUB

Paperback, $16.00 (US $16.00) (CA $22.00)

Publication Date: June 2018

ISBN 9781784104740

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Overview

In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly funny, surreal adaptation.  Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas – our millennial Dante – is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the course of 147 'songs' we accompany the pair on their journey through the Bad Place, the Better Place and the Good Place, and witness the horrors and delights that befall the dead.  On our way we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree, a Golden Kiwi, Lineout the dog, a Vegetable Ewe, souls falling off things, Philosophy, and lots of bright, coloured lights. Divine order is replaced by modern Physics, by Klein bottles, super-speeds and black holes. Gallas's Comedy is a metaphysical plunge through torment and triumph, as subtly satirical as it is unsubtly silly. 

Reviews

"An enticing and timely collection of translations." —The Guardian on 52 Euros

"One of the UK's most fascinating poets...hilarious." —YorkMix

"Delivers with a real punch." Swansea Writers

"He's a wise and learned man all right." —Bill Manhire, Poet Laureate for New Zealand

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 is his tenth Carcanet collection. He is the editor of two books of translations – 52 Euros and The Song Atlas – also published by Carcanet. He is a Fellow of the English Association and was 2016 Orkney St Magnus Festival poet.
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