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Bones Will Crow

The anthology reveals the transition of traditional to modernist poetry, the development of Burmese poetry over the second half of the 20th century, as Burma has changed. Through their wildly diverse styles, these poems delight in the freedom to experiment with poetic tradition.This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the West, and includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde, performance and online poetries.

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Ko Ko Thett

Ko Ko Thett

Books

To Leave with the Reindeer

The Book of Cairo

The Madwoman of Serrano

Sergius Seeks Bacchus

Zuleikha

The Remainder

Bones Will Crow

ko ko thett grew up in Burma. By the early 1990s, he was thoroughly poeticized and politicized at Rangoon Institute of Technology. In 1996 he published and clandestinely distributed two uncensored chapbooks on the campus. He left the country in 1997 following a brief detention for his role in the December 1996 student uprising in Rangoon. ko ko thett has written extensively for several Burma journals and leading papers in Finland.

James Byrne

James Byrne

Books

Bones Will Crow

James Byrne is the editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine and has published poetry collections, Passages of Time and Blood / Sugar.  He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees. He helped to organize the ‘World Poets’ Tour’ for the Poetry Translation Centre at SOAS, London, in 2004. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. Since 2006 James has taught regular Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications.

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Arc Publications, 2012
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The anthology reveals the transition of traditional to modernist poetry, the development of Burmese poetry over the second half of the 20th century, as Burma has changed. Through their wildly diverse styles, these poems delight in the freedom to experiment with poetic tradition.This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the West, and includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing post-modern, avant-garde, performance and online poetries.

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