John Gallas

John Robert Gallas FEA (born 11 January 1950) is a New Zealand born poet who in 2016 was the Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize and the St Magnus International Festival poet.[1][2][3]

Gallas was born in Wellington in New Zealand[4] and is of Austrian descent, the son of Frederick, né Fritz Eduard Gänzl, an educator, and Nancy Gallas, née Agnes Ada Welsh. He is the younger brother of the historian and writer Kurt Gänzl.[5] He attended the University of Otago in his native New Zealand, and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford to study Medieval English Literature and Old Icelandic[3] and has since lived and worked in York, Liverpool and various other locations as a bottlewasher, archaeologist and teacher. His books are published by Cold Hub Press in New Zealand and by Agraphia in Sweden. The Little Sublime Comedy is his tenth Carcanet Press collection. Gallas is the editor of two books of translations – 52 Euros and The Song Atlas. also published by Carcanet. His poem 'Cat' was The Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' in December 2014.[1][6]

He is a Fellow of the English Association and was the Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize in 2016 and was the St Magnus Festival poet in Orkney in the same year.[1][3]

List of books by Gallas

  • 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, New Zealand)
  • 40 Lies (Carcanet) pictures by Sarah Kirby
  • Fresh Air & The Story of Molecule (Carcanet)
  • 52 Euros (Carcanet)
  • Pacifictions (Cold Hub Press, New Zealand)
  • The Alphabet of Ugly Animals (Magpie Press)
  • Mad John's Walk (Five Leaves : Occasional Pamphlets) January 2017
  • The Little Sublime Comedy (Carcanet)
  • 17 Very Pacific Poems (Indigo Dreams)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Biography of John Gallas - Carcanet Press website
  2. ↑ John Gallas - Indigo Freams Publishing Ltd
  3. 1 2 3 John Gallas - Festival Poet - St Magnus International Festival - 25 June 2016
  4. ↑ Brief biography of John Gallas - The Poetry Society website
  5. ↑ "Gänzl's family history"
  6. ↑ Poem of the Week: Cat by John Gallas - The Guardian 1 December 2014
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