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'Michael Byrne's New & Selected Poems incorporates poems written from 1995 to 2010. The first poem in the collection, 'Volutions', was written when Byrne was seventeen. The latest poem, 'Theatre', was written when he was thirty-two. New & Selected Poems takes six poems from his early collection Estuary at Dusk: Poems 1995-2000 as well as twenty poems and eight poems respectively from his award-winning collections Southbound and A Man of Emails. There are a number of new poems in the collection. New & Selected Poems encompasses the full arc of Byrne's development, from promising teenage poet to an accomplished poet in his thirties.' (Publication summary)