Star City: Including the Coalville Divan and Excellent Men

by John Gallas

John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one.
The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857547438
• ISBN13: 9781857547436
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 144 Pages