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by John Gallas (Author)
A pyrotechnic display of poetic sparkles lights up the contradictory meanings of life.
In Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: The Complete Works, New Zealand poet John Gallas explores and expands upon the contradictory Meanings of Life. This collection has no Great Purpose, apart from exploring and expanding upon the contradictory Meanings of Life. In a pyrotechnic display of thirty-one-syllable sparkles, set off by accident and protracted by design, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered and enjoyed.
Crazy and merry variety make this collection amenable to all, especially when all have not quite made up their minds about what on earth is going on. Warning: there are love poems lurking here. It is contagious: readers begin tankaing as soon as they close the . A walk in the country will never be the same.
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 throughout the UK as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published by Cold Hub Press (NZ) and Agraphia (Sweden). The Extasie (2021) was his twelfth Carcanet collection. He also co-translated Rhapsodies 1831 by Petrus Borel, also published by Carcanet. Bill Manhire described him as 'the greatest New Zealand poet no one has ever heard of.' He currently lives in Leicestershire.
