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NIGHTSONGS FOR GAIA IBD

ARC PUBLICATIONS
07 / 2025
9781911469841
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Sinopsis

âÇÖJames ByrneâÇÖs poetry has always been lyrically complex, with a voice that is singular and instantly striking. What particularly impresses the reader of his Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poemsáis its capaciousness. This book takes us on a journey from his youth, via places of recent conflict such as Myanmar and Libya in a way that few contemporary writers across the globe can match. He makes most poets today look like theyâÇÖre jogging in a bathtub.âÇÖANTONY ROWLANDNightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poemsáspans over twenty years of James ByrneâÇÖs poetic practice. Accomplished in both formal and innovative modes, ByrneâÇÖs poetry is visionary,attentive and curious, encapsulating a global sensibility. Selecting from seven full collections and various pamphlets, Nightsongsábrings together works unavailable in England until now. Here we encounter a poetics that works with communities to further consider a sense of self and otherness and is unique in its musicality. This volume celebrates the work of one of themost gifted poets of his generation.âÇÖNightsongs for Gaiaápresents alchemical fissures of a heart reduced to gold with no other substance to turn (in)to. A fiery presence of augury, of premonition, burns from the outset with a wary flame. Byrne has seen many places, been many things, and undergone visceral self-haunting in many guises. To say theáNightsongsáare oracular is to understate the poetâÇÖs own sense of knowingness. Here, exquisite beauty prevails.âÇÖKIRSTEN NORRIE

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