The Extasie by John Gallas Laurel2022 John Agard has been broadening

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous

 These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people

he is deeply curious about the business of his own death

‘By turns funny

The Extasie by John Gallas Laurel2022 John Agard has been broadeningThe Extasie is a compelling book of love poems with its lyrical roots deep in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the rural traditions of the nineteenth. Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's spirit guides are John Clare and, in particular, Wyatt and Donne, writers from our poetry's wittiest and most ecstatic age. But the book's heart is set firmly in the twenty first century. Its two parts follow the seasons of a revelatory love through