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Ep. 2 Lit Bits on Bad Literature (with James Byrne)

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In which Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) are joined by poet, editor and teacher James Byrne. What is literary badness? Is it just a matter of taste (yeuch)? What makes a bad sentence? What separates goodness and badness?

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Among the good, bad and ugly, we look at Josephine Hart, The Beat Poets, Bob Dylan, Simon Cowell, to name but a phew. Sorry, few.

James Byrne is an award-winning poet, whose collections include Everything Broken Up Dances, White Coins, and Blood/Sugar. He has also published the pamphlets SOAPBOXES and, with Sandeep Parmar, Myth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nations. James edited the poetry magazine The Wolf from 2002-2017, and with ko ko thett an anthology of Burmese poetry, Bones Will Crow.

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In which Lit Bits (Adam ‘Lit’ Smyth and James ‘Bits’ Kidd) are joined by poet, editor and teacher James Byrne. What is literary badness? Is it just a matter of taste (yeuch)? What makes a bad sentence? What separates goodness and badness?

----more----

Among the good, bad and ugly, we look at Josephine Hart, The Beat Poets, Bob Dylan, Simon Cowell, to name but a phew. Sorry, few.

James Byrne is an award-winning poet, whose collections include Everything Broken Up Dances, White Coins, and Blood/Sugar. He has also published the pamphlets SOAPBOXES and, with Sandeep Parmar, Myth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nations. James edited the poetry magazine The Wolf from 2002-2017, and with ko ko thett an anthology of Burmese poetry, Bones Will Crow.

Listen to more Lit Bits here.

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