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John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets returning a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little, colour narratives put Life back up there with its Meaning. Volume two has its mind on different things. If Beckett comes before Oort, and Fellini is next to the Unknown Soldier; if Alfred Schnittke can almost touch the muezzin who was a tape recorder, and William Bees VC is three steps away from a Mongolian marmot-killer, then it must be Excellent Men.
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John Gallas is the author of Practical Anarchy, Flying Carpets over Filbert Street, Grrrrr, Resistance Is Futile, and The Song Atlas: A Book of World Poetry.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1857547438
- ISBN 13 9781857547436
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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