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The Song Atlas

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Categories: Anthologies
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (242 pages)

(Pub. Sep 2002)

9781857546149

£12.95 £11.65

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Night Roof

The night roof is a right-round city,
lightpricked with men and wild things:
but, there, no man
has ever killed a chook or goat,
no bear has ever wiped its game:
no crashes, no slips.
Everything still-lives.

Anonymous

The Song Atlas is the world's first anthology of poetry from every country in the world. Five years in the making, the creation of such a book as almost as interesting as the poems contained therein.

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 in York, Liverpool, Upholland, Little Ness, Rothwell, Bursa, Leicester, Diyarbakir, Coalville and Markfield, as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published ... read more

Praise for John Gallas 'An enticing and timely collection of translations.'
- The Guardian

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The Song Atlas John Gallas 10% off Categories: Anthologies Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (242 pages) (Pub. Sep 2002) 9781857546149 £12.95 £11.65 Description Excerpt Author Reviews Night Roof The night roof is a right-round city, lightpricked with men and wild things: but, there, no man has ever killed a chook or goat, no bear has ever wiped its game: no crashes, no slips. Everything still-lives. Anonymous The Song Atlas is the world's first anthology of poetry from every country in the world. Five years in the making, the creation of such a book as almost as interesting as the poems contained therein. 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 in York, Liverpool, Upholland, Little Ness, Rothwell, Bursa, Leicester, Diyarbakir, Coalville and Markfield, as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published ... read more Praise for John Gallas 'An enticing and timely collection of translations.' - The Guardian Additional Resources Making The Song Atlas by John Gallas	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Joe Carrick-Varty: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Andrew Latimer on Benjamin Nehammer read more Charles Boyle: The Disguise read more Benjamin Nehammer: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Phoebe Power on Jason Allen-Paisant read more Moya Cannon: On Poetry read more
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