The Extasie by John Gallas Mark Roper Whether writing about the beautiful

Whether writing about the beautiful Donegal landscape

and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her

getting lost

when he’s in one place

a way of life

The Extasie by John Gallas Mark Roper Whether writing about the beautifulThe 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