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"In the mountains, a bear is a philosopher" - Persian proverb

Munch the spring sun

'the greatest New Zealand poet no one has ever heard of' (Spinoff)

Poem for May 2021

Break o’ Spring

a triple-tanka

The windows rattle.

My hot-milk pot boils over.

Outside puffins honk

down at the sea-swell, the white

wind in their precarious feet.

From here the hedgerows

roll down to Brue across the

careful corduroy

of two farms. In each a tree,

enisled, tears its windy hair.

How long Spring days are

after the storm of Winter.

Now the sun shudders

fatly in a milky sky

and hope haunts the creeping hours.

What's Afoot ? Top Ten

1. 'The Extasie', my book of 64 love poems, now out. Check out that fab cover. Available to buy at all good bookshops, or order from Amazon and/or www.carcanet.co.uk

2. 'Meet the Author' on the Carcanet blog : 'The link is here: https://carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2021/04/john-gallas-extasie.html.'

3. More good news : just signed publisher's agreement with Lazy Adventurer Publishing for '17 Paper Resurrections (from graveyards in Mid-Wales)' - poem-prints bringing back to life interesting folks memorialized in the area, collected while biking about last year.

4. Look out for FOUR GRID-PAPER PICTURE-POEMS (Proust, T.E.Lawrence, Basho & Henry Flynt) to be published online from 1st May by the very wonderful Otolith Group (www.otolithgroup.org)

5. 'The Gnawing Flood', a book of 28 anti-colonial poem-prints now out from brave and exciting Cerasus Publishing. Order @ The Gnawing Flood: Amazon.co.uk: Gallas, John: 9798592286063: Books

6. John Rylands Library Manchester Online Exhibition : the creative process of a John Gallas poem, 'Somewhere down Hurdletree Gate' - visit @ https://medium.com/special-collections/the-creative-process-of-poet-john-gallas-a01301497c92

7. Out from Carcanet Classics 2022, my and bro's translation of Petrus Borel's 'Rhapsodies (1868) : see also www.carcanet.co.uk

8. The tanka collection, 'Here They Come! 200 Tankas Delivering Goodness Straight to your Doorstep' is to be published by New Walk Editions (Leicester University) in Winter this year.

9. 'The Long Poem Magazine' has published my and bro's translation of Jean Genet's 11-page poem 'Fisherman : Le Suquet' in Issue 24, available now.

10. Completed : a set of online workshops called 'Write Like a Saxon' for the Sutton Hoo Saxonship Project (www.saxonship.org). JOIN IN! and meanwhile sponsor a rivet at the website address! This wonderful project is also about to exhibit a CGI film of the ship in action accompanied by a reading of my Saxonship Poem no.10, 'On the Water'. Poems 11 and 12 on the way.

Complete Book List - we have reached 25 !

Practical Anarchy (Carcanet)

Flying Carpets Over Filbert Street (Carcanet)

Grrrrr (Carcanet)

Resistance is Futile (Carcanet)

The Ballad of Robin Hood and the Deer (Agraphia Press), pictures by Clifford Harper

The Ballad of Santo Caserio (Agraphia Press), pictures by Clifford Harper

The Song Atlas (Carcanet)

Star City (Carcanet)

The Book with Twelve Tales (Carcanet)

Fucking Poets (3 vols) (Cold Hub Press NZ)

40 Lies (Carcanet) pictures by Sarah Kirby