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

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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