The Extasie by John Gallas Mark Roper getting lost

getting lost

taking in love and the end of love

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The Extasie by John Gallas Mark Roper getting lostThe 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