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J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His first retrospectivePoems(1982) was followed by three expanded editions from Bloodaxe, in 1999, 2005 and 2015, withPoems 2016-2024following as a separate supplementary volume in 2024. Separate editions have also been published of two of his collections,The White Stones(1969) from New York Review Books in 2016, andThe Oval Window(1983) from Bloodaxe in 2018.Poems 20162024includes 36 texts, fromEach to Each(2017) to Alembic Forest (2024), all previously only available in limited editions from small presses. Prynne's most productive decade has also seen the publication of prose works includingWhitman and Truth(2022) and editions of his correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022). His two-volumeCollected Proseis forthcoming from OUP (New York). Born in 1936, Prynne was Cambridge University's most influential don in English studies since F.R. Leavis.
J.H. Prynne’s Poems is a collection, thirty years in the making, in which the language is both astonishing and inevitable. Such a level of intelligence, control and risk is shocking. -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times * Prynne presents a body of work of staggering audacity and authority such that the map of contemporary poetry already begins to look a little different. -- Roger Caldwell * TLS * This book is one of the most inventive, intelligently experimental collected poems of the century. -- Adam Phillips * The Observer, on Poems *
