John Edward 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]
John Edward 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 in England as a bottlewasher, archaeologist and teacher.[ citation needed ]
The Little Sublime Comedy was Gallas's tenth Carcanet Press collection. Gallas is the editor of books of translations, including 52 Euros, The Song Atlas and Rhapsodies 1931, also published by Carcanet, and the librettist for David Knotts' Toads on a Tapestry, and for Alasdair Nicolson's opera The Iris Murders. His poem 'Cat' was The Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' in December 2014. [1] [6] A review of Gallas's The Extasie (2021) by Maria Crawford of The Financial Times said, "New Zealand-born, UK-based Gallas fills his 12th Carcanet collection with resounding echoes of John Donne, Thomas Wyatt and John Clare. In a series of love poems set against the patterns of the English landscape, [Gallas] applies a modern-day directness to lyrical expressions of intimacy." [7] His translation of twenty-five poems by Amado Nervo, Poems of Faith and Doubt, was also published in 2021 and was followed by a number of anthologies and translations of sacred poetry with the same publisher. Over the years he has worked with his brother Kurt Gänzl on translations of Baudelaire, [8] Verhaeren, [9] Materlinck, Yourcenar, Anna de Noailles, Nerval, Florian and Borel, among others. [9] [10]
Gallas is a Fellow of the English Association, won the International Welsh Poetry Competition in 2009, 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] He held the position of John Clare 'The Visit' Poet in 2019, and Sutton Hoo Saxon Ship Oet in 2020. In November 2021 he won the Parkinson's Art Poet of the Year 2021 competition with his poem 'The Night My Great Aunt Invented The Anarchist Hop'., [11] and in 2022 was awarded the National Poetry Library's Brian Dempsey Memorial Poetry Prize, which led to the publication of his collection 17 Paper Resurrections. [12]
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