The Caprices by James Byrne Valley Press polemicist and activist

polemicist and activist

and witness the horrors and delights that befall the dead

I have understood:

Staying Alive has reached a wider readership than any other anthology of contemporary poetry

and reveals a richly varied body of verse that is at once a place of departure and exploration as well as

The Caprices by James Byrne Valley Press polemicist and activistThe Caprices is a sequence of poems written in response to Goya's Los Caprichos, a series of aquatints in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Each of the 80 poems is illustrated by the etching to which it responds, and shares its title. As James Byrne writes in his introduction: "Goya's Los Caprichos are a series of real life nightmares that haunt the twenty first century. [] Arguably, the world we live in today is more terrifying than Goya's Spain because in