Caprices

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvJames Byrne

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These poems were written to accompany the Los Caprichos images, originally published by Francisco Goya on February 6th, 1799. The images are part of the original ‘Prado’ manuscript, republished by Dover Publications in 1969.Excerpts from this sequence first appeared in Ambit, Buenos Aires Poetry, Blackbox Manifold, Granta, The Common, Long Poem Magazine, Morning Star, Poetry Review and on University of Liverpool’s ‘Citizens of Everywhere’ blog. The author is grateful to the editors of these publications. A brief selection also appeared in Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo Press, 2015).

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-15
Mått223 x 145 x 10 mm
Vikt258 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagArc Publications
ISBN9781911469865

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James Byrne was born in 1977 near London. He has published seven full collections of poetry, including The Overmind (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), Places you Leave (Arc Publications, 2022), Of Breaking Glass (Broken Sleep Books , 2022) and The Caprices, a response to Francisco Goya’s ‘Los Caprichos’ (Arc, 2019). Nightsongs for Gaia includes works previously unpublished in the UK, such as Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo, 2015) and limited edition pamphlets,, Mythaca (2023) and Emanations (2024).As well as being a poet, Byrne is an experienced editor and translator. He edited The Wolf, an influential, internationally-minded literary magazine between 2002 and 2017 and, in 2012, he co-translated and co-edited Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in English (Arc, 2012). He has co-edited a number of anthologies, including I Am a Rohingya, the first book of Rohingya refugee poems in English, Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (Arc / Edge Hill University Press, 2017) and Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009). Byrne co-translated Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi (Five Scenes from a Failed Revolution, Arc 2022), a poem of which was selected for the Deep Vellum anthology Best Literary Translations in 2024. I Am a Rohingya was part of the supplementary evidence presented to Aung San Su Kyi when she was invited to the Hague to answer crimes of genocide against the Rohingya people. Recently, for Arc, he co-translated with Rohingya author Ro Mehrooz, Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences.At present, he is working on a collection of essays, and finalising a new collection of poems.