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James Byrne is a poet, editor and translator. He edited The Wolf from 2002-2015. With Robert Sheppard, he co-edited Atlantic Drift: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics (Edge Hill University Press/Arc, 2017). His poetry collections include Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo, 2015) and White Coins (Arc Publications, 2015). The Caprices, his next book, includes creative responses to the works of Francisco Goya and will be published by Arc in September 2019. Byrne has taught with Sheppard at Edge Hill University since 2015. Christopher Madden is an independent scholar, critic, and writer specialising in narrative studies, poetry and poetics, queer theory, and psychogeography. He has published articles on the queer chronotopes of Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain', and Holocaust humour in Woody Allen, Shalom Auslaender, and Howard Jacobson. Titles in which his reviews have appeared include The Wolf, PN Review, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, and Textual Practice. His review of Robert Sheppard's Berlin Bursts and subsequent interview for The Wolf led to his involvement in the Robert Sheppard Symposium and indeed to the present volume.