Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics

About

James Byrne's most recent poetry collection Blood/Sugar was published by Arc Publications in 2009. Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets published in June 2012 is co-edited with ko ko thett and is the first anthology of Burmese poetry ever to be published in the West (Arc 2012). Byrne is the editor of The Wolf an internationally-renowned poetry magazine which he co-founded in 2002. He won the Treci Trg poetry festival prize in Serbia and his Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was published in Belgrade. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century an anthology of poets under 35 published by Bloodaxe in 2009. Byrne lives in Liverpool and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His poems have been translated into several languages including Arabic Burmese and Chinese and he is the International Editor for Arc Publications.