The Extasie by John Gallas Laurel2022 Denise Levertov described Allnutt's poems

Denise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate

 These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people

Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses

‘By turns funny

he is deeply curious about the business of his own death

The Extasie by John Gallas Laurel2022 Denise Levertov described Allnutt's poemsThe 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