Livres par James Byrne

James Byrne is a poet, editor and translator. He founded The Wolf magazine in 2002, which he still edits, and co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Poets (Arc Publications, 2012). His second poetry collection in the UK, Blood/Sugar, was published by Arc in November 2009 and his poems have been translated into various languages including Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, French and Serbian. Byrne was Poet in Residence at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 2012 (the first since Joseph Brodsky).He has an international reputation and recently has given readings in Syria (2009), Burma and Libya (both 2012), at the invitation of the British Council. In 2008, Byrne won the Treci Trg poetry festival prize in Serbia. In 2009 a Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was published by Treci Trg (in a bilingual edition) 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 and edited The Wolf: A Decade in July 2012. Byrne was born near London in 1977 and graduated from the MFA program at New York University, where he was on a Stein Scholarship ('Extraordinary International Scholar'). He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing.