The Little Sublime Comedy by John Gallas Bernard O'donoghue shortlisted for the TS Eliot

shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize

In addition to presenting some of the best poetry in Irish written since 1900

Previous work in English includes Aurora (Shearsman Books)

its follow-up

The Little Sublime Comedy by John Gallas Bernard O'donoghue shortlisted for the TS EliotIn The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern day New Zealand, Dantes Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallass darkly funny, surreal adaptation. Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas our millennial Dante is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the course of 147