Wired to the Dynamo offers poetry and prose in response to the work and career of John Barnie, one of Wales's most important contemporary writers: 'freethinker, editor, poet, guitarist, essayist, and author of some of the best memoirs I've read' (Peter Finch, from his own contribution to this volume).

Collecting analysis, recollection and creative reflections on Barnie's ongoing literary output, Wired to the Dynamo's line-up—from Gwyneth Lewis and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch to Peter Lord and Robert Minhinnick—is testament to the esteem in which Barnie's work is held.