We're delighted to share The Banality of Power by James Byrne as our Summer 2026 Recommendation (Broken Sleep Books).
James Byrne is a poet, editor, translator and visual artist. His most recent books are Nightsongs for Gaia: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications) and The Overmind (Broken Sleep Books). He has co-translated and co-edited several books of poetry, including Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in English (Arc) and Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences by Rohingya poet Ro Mehrooz. Byrne works at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.