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Forty Lies

John Gallas

From Shelf: Books with words. Some of it rhymes. A lot is short. (Poetry)

John Gallas's falsehoods are beautiful, ribald and audacious. Made from found language liberated from books, walls, the internet and radio, his forty lies construct an extravagant alternative reality of Russian assassins and magical shirts, Babylonian gardens, flying monks and the mathematics of Omar Khayyam.

'It is the poet's job to invent beautiful falsehoods.' John Gallas's falsehoods are beautiful, ribald and audacious. Made from found language liberated from books, walls, the internet and radio, his forty lies construct an extravagant alternative reality of Russian assassins and magical shirts, Babylonian gardens, flying monks and the mathematics of Omar Khayyam. From Inner Mongolia to outer space, in tanka and sonnet and villanelle, Viking haiku and musical staves, Gallas collaborates with the print-maker Sarah Kirby to beguile the reader with stories and puzzles, and with pictures that create visual false memories of facts that never were.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
84
Publisher:
Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN:
9781847770493
Published Date:
28/7/2010
Category:
Poetry by individual poets

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781847770493

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