Of Breaking Glass

<p><em>Of Breaking Glass </em>is an elegiac sequence for James Byrne's brother Robin who passed away unexpectedly during the initial Covid lockdown. These poems set in California's Death Valley during a heatwave are an attempt of one sibling to bury another's 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. <em>Of Breaking Glass</em> is a series of poems that hold out the possibility of becoming something more than our inevitable eventual end.</p>