What better way to celebrate than with a book of spider-related stories and poems
Paul Celan or Jacques Brel
they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy
of personal and public record
“Prynne and a Petoskey Stone” and “First and Last Opinions
Of Breaking Glass by James Byrne #PBSChristmas What better way to celebrateOf Breaking Glass is an elegiac sequence for James Byrnes brother, Robin, who passed away unexpectedly during the initial Covid lockdown. These poems, set in Californias Death Valley during a heatwave, are an attempt of one sibling to bury anothers first memory: the sound of breaking glass. Ritualising loss, memory and language, this tender, brilliant book, replete with stunning colour photographs, evokes the most intimate kind of writing. Of Breaking