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poem for May
'Ariwara Narihira (825-880),
Japanese court poet' :
Possible Poems
first published in 'Forty Lies' (Sarah Kirby & John Gallas, Carcanet 2010)
1.
General Yodo
puts up his tent in the wood,
where it points at birds.
The lunchgirls flutter past me.
My cock puts up yellow silk.
2.
I know a soft place :
a waterfall combs its hair
into a blue pool.
I am pretending to sleep
while she brushes her blue plaits.
3.
Nightbird drawn on cloud,
cloud drawn on moon, moon on star.
I wait for some girl.
I have hidden my bright lies
with smiles, gifts, words, and my cock.
4.
My jaunting-car jerks.
I can feel my gorge rising.
I excuse myself.
I spurt onto the roadside.
As I would for any girl.
Broadsheet 8 (new newzealand poetry) - November 2011
featuring all seven 'Pacifictions', and a cover photo.
Edited by Mark Pirie (The Night Press, Wellington)
find and buy and/or look at http://broadsheetnz.wordpress.com
'Fucking Poets' :
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Limited Edition of 'Fucking Poets', published by Cold Hub Press (New Zealand).
3 volumes of close encounters with famous poets, from Eadbert (a 'Beowulf' poet) to Thom Gunn, and including Alfred Noyes, Spenser, Shakespeare, Flecker, Stephen Duck, Marlowe, Chatterton, Peacock, Wilfred Owen and 19 more.
Hours of merry obscenity in a beautiful edition, limited to 60. Sold out.
All money has gone to Cold Hub Press to regroup after the Christchurch Earthquake.
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(Mild Obscenity Warning)
John Gallas books to come :
2011: Fucking Poets. 30 long poems of merry obscenity, close encounters with Shakespeare, Spenser, Duck, Flecker, Noyes, Fitzgerald, Thom Gunn, Chatterton, Shelley, Eadbert, Layamon, Ossian and many more. See above to Subscribe to the 3 volume limited edition.
2012 : Fresh Air & the Story of Molecule (poems written while walking /
the story of a 12 year old NZer escaping Evolution, all in sonnets)(Carcanet). Now available to order at www.carcanet.co.uk
2013 : 52 Euros (translations of European poets, 26 male (A-Z)
and 26 female (A-Z) (Carcanet)
Work in progress :
1. 'newzealand' : a prose-poem, 1st section published in 'SPORT' (ed Fergus Barrowman, NZ)
2. 'The Little Sublime Comedy' : Complete Dante as done by JG, with New Morality. Guided by Samuel Beckett, our wobbly hero explores the geography and human contents of The Bad Place, The Better Place, and The Good Place.
3. 'BUSH' : a New Zealand poetic novel. Murder, gold, revenge, gold, burnings, gold, treachery, treasure maps and gold in the South Island (reached page 94)
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