The Overmind by James Byrne Lewis Freedman she maintains a sense of

she maintains a sense of wonder at the resilience of nature

the poet seeks to bring word-music to bear on the enquiring mind

as ‘visionary’ and ‘exciting’

Luke Palmer

Craven can shift from comic to devastating on a sixpence

The Overmind by James Byrne Lewis Freedman she maintains a sense ofTraversing an axis of Liverpool London, and following a car accident in New York, The Overmind is an attempt to metabolise experience whilst seeing the world through the skin of a jellyfish. In lyric poems and sequences, Byrne summons his Irish and English working class ancestry, asking questions against injustice to those in power. These poems are written through grief, illness and silence, where the authors love for his daughter during periods of