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Other poems respond to a mass shooting in her home neighbourhood

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“the place where it begins to be a dog”

The Overmind by James Byrne actors Other poems respond to aTraversing an axis of Liverpool London, and following a car accident in New York, The Overmind is an attempt to metabolise experience whilst seeing the world through the skin of a jellyfish. In lyric poems and sequences, Byrne summons his Irish and English working class ancestry, asking questions against injustice to those in power. These poems are written through grief, illness and silence, where the authors love for his daughter during periods of