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Title

Forty lies / John Gallas ; with illustrations by Sarah Kirby.

Author

Gallas, John, 1950-

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kirby, Sarah.

Description

84 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Surreal humour and fantastical stories abound in this illustrated book of poems by John Gallas. The poems were made from 'found' statements discovered in books, on walls, on the Internet, on the radio and as apparent facts.

Subject

• New Zealand poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: George Malzard, who died in Foochoofoo -- Munkhbat Jigjidym, the Mongolian wrestler -- God Defend New Zealand -- Let-we Thon-dara in exile -- Mardukapal-Iddina II and the herb garden -- The Picards' balloon -- The meeting of Saadi and Khusrau -- Maria Spiridonova, assassin -- Gerard de Nerval and the lobster -- William Whiston at Cambridge -- Mirsaid Mirshakar, a Tajik tragedy -- Louis Robert makes paper -- `Talismanic Shirts' / Professor Tezcan -- The burned at Drumcollogher -- Askhabad earthquake -- The shame of T.E. Lawrence Pedro Alvarez Cabral -- Man versus Kangaroo -- Laika -- Three songs / Noyon Khutayt Ravjaa -- The Art of One Word -- Saint Jose Cupertino, the flying monk -- The Weka -- King Farouk and the prawn -- Ornithoptera goliath -- The Rooster's Message Ariwara Narihira (825-880) -- Saint-Saens dances with Tchaikovsky -- 1456 -- Acyanoblepsia -- Pliny the Elder and the camel -- The faithful elephant of Porus the Great -- Plunkett and Casement at war -- What Saparmurat Niyazov did -- Turks on all fours -- Allah and the cockerel -- 1039 -- Danish haiku -- Omar Khayyam's algebra.

ISBN

• 9781847770493 (pbk.)
• 1847770495 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 457546980
• SCSB-10625270

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library