The Overmind by James Byrne actors Odubanjo was a singular voice

Odubanjo was a singular voice in British poetry

liars all – have many methods at their disposal

In part soulful

and with a folkloric strangeness peculiar to his work alone

The Overmind by James Byrne actors Odubanjo was a singular voiceTraversing 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