James Byrne (poet)

For many years James has been consistently talked of as 'one of the leading poets of his generation', endorsed by The Times as one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' in April 2009.

Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics was co-edited by Byrne and Robert Sheppard in 2017, publishing leading innovative poets from the UK and North America.

His work has been recommended by the Poetry Book Society (SOAPBOXES) and he won Tupelo's July Open Reading Competition in 2013 in the U.S. making him one of the first poets of his generation with a developed transatlantic profile.

Of Everything Broken Up Dances the American poet and translator Forrest Gander said: "Reading James Byrne is like gulping firewater shots of the world.

The variety of poetic forms and lineations— in couplets, prose poems, anaphoric lists, singular lyrics, and sequences— acts out the author’s insistent concern for diversity, for internationality.