Of Breaking Glass by James Byrne The Poetry Business This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century

This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-century Welsh-language poetry in English translation – by far the most comprehensive of its kind – will be a revelation for most readers

offering us the glimpsed lives of strangers and lovers

offering the same sense of humour

— Charlie Connelly on The Grail Roads for The New European

” Ernesto Che Guevara was a poet

Of Breaking Glass by James Byrne The Poetry Business This wide-ranging anthology of 20th-centuryOf 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