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. The extraordinary and deftly employed lexicon derives from everywhere." The poet John Kinsella wrote on the jacket for Blood/Sugar: ‘James Byrne is a phenomenon and Blood/Sugar is astonishing. Byrne has a razor-sharp wit, an acute intellect and a superb facility with language. The poetry he writes is both culturally and intellectually ‘learned’, but also rhetorically and lyrically confident. He is a complete original.’ References External links / Tupelo author page / Author page at Arc Publications / James Byrne at Poetry International / Poems recorded by James Byrne for Archive of the Now Three 'Caprichos' poems in Granta Poems in Mascara Literary Review, 2015 / Four poems, 2014 5 Poems (in Slovenian and English) Staff profile at Edge Hill University British poets 1977 births Living people British male poets