{"product_id":"nightsongs-for-gaia-9781911469841","title":"Nightsongs for Gaia","description":"\u003cp\u003e'James Byrne's 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 Poems is 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 they're jogging in a bathtub.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONY ROWLAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems spans over twenty years of James Byrne's poetic practice. Accomplished in both formal and innovative modes, Byrne's poetry is visionary, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eattentive and curious, encapsulating a global sensibility. Selecting from seven full collections and various pamphlets, Nightsongs brings 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 the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emost gifted poets of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nightsongs for Gaia presents 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 the Nightsongs are oracular is to understate the poet's own sense of knowingness. Here, exquisite beauty prevails.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKIRSTEN NORRIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911469841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d","brand":"James Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51924727988405,"sku":"9781911469841","price":14.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_17e44027-173d-41b7-a178-8259f77223b6.jpg?v=1761660633","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nightsongs-for-gaia-9781911469841","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}