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Poems 2016-2024 J.H. Prynne

Poems 2016-2024 By J.H. Prynne

Poems 2016-2024 by J.H. Prynne


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Poems 2016-2024 is effectively volume two of Prynnes Poems (2015) but this supplementary edition is bigger than his previous life's work retrospective, bringing together the complete texts of 36 collections from the late and most productive period of Prynnes writing, all previously only available in limited editions.

Poems 2016-2024 Summary

Poems 2016-2024 by J.H. Prynne

J.H. Prynne is Britains leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. Not since the late work of Ezra Pound and the Maximus series of Charles Olson have the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they are in the life work of J.H. Prynne. When his Poems was first published in 1999, it was immediately acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. Four further collections were added to the second edition of Poems in 2005, followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of Poems (2015). The decade since Poems (2015) has been the most productive period of Prynne's life, with over thirty limited editions published between 2017 and 2024. To have added these to a fourth edition of Poems would have more than doubled the size of that volume. Poems 20162024 is therefore a separate, supplementary edition of his later work, including, except for minor corrections, the mostly unchanged contents of 36 texts written since Poems (2015), from Each to Each (2017) to Alembic Forest (2024), including the corrected 2023 text of At Raucous Purposeful (2022). The 26 Impromptus comprising Memory Working, originally published by Face Press in three separate editions in 2020 and 2021, appear here as a complete sequence. Prynne's most productive decade has also seen the publication of three prose works, Graft and Corruption: Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 (2015/2016), Apophthegms (2017) and Whitman and Truth (2022), along with editions of Prynne's correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022). His two-volume Collected Prose is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (New York).

Poems 2016-2024 Reviews

J.H. Prynnes 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 *

About J.H. Prynne

J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version was published by Bloodaxe Books with Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1999 as Poems. Four further collections were added to the second edition of Poems in 2005, followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of Poems (2015). Prynne has published a wide range of critical and academic prose, including works on Saussure, Wordsworth, Shakespeare. His essay on New Songs from a Jade Terrace, an anthology of early Chinese love poetry, was included in the second edition of the book from Penguin in 1982. He has written poetry in classical Chinese under the name Pu Ling-en. His 1969 collection The White Stones central to his poetics was reissued in 2016 by New York Review Books with an introduction by Peter Gizzi. An annotated, illustrated edition of his 1983 collection The Oval Window, edited by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. The decade since Poems (2015) has been the most productive period of Prynne's life, with over thirty limited editions published between 2017 and 2023. To have added these to a fourth edition of Poems would have doubled the size of that volume. His Poems 20162024 published in June 2024 is therefore a separate, supplementary edition of his later work, including, except for minor corrections, the mostly unchanged contents of 36 texts, from Each to Each (2017) to Alembic Forest (2024), as well as the corrected 2023 text of At Raucous Purposeful (2022). Prynne's most productive decade has also seen the publication of three prose works, Graft and Corruption: Shakespeare's Sonnet 15 (2015/2016), Apophthegms (2017) and Whitman and Truth (2022), along with editions of Prynne's correspondence with Charles Olson (2017) and Douglas Oliver (2022). His two-volume Collected Prose is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (New York). A seminal interview with Jeff Doven and Joshua Kotin, 'J.H. Prynne: The Arts of Poetry No.101', was published in Paris Review, 218 (Fall 2016). Born in 1936, Prynne is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005 he retired from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College in 2006.

Table of Contents

Each to Each (2017) 9 OF THE ABYSS (2017) 23 Or Scissel (2018) 35 Of Better Scrap (2019) 67 None Yet More Willing Told (2019) 143 Parkland (2019) 161 Bitter Honey (2020) 195 Squeezed White Noise (2020) 207 Enchanters Nightshade (2020) 251 Memory Working: Impromptus I-XXVI (2020-21) 269 Her Air Fallen (2020) 297 The Fevers End (2020) 305 Passing Grass Parnassus (2020) 329 Aquatic Hocquets (2020) 355 Kernels in Vernal Silence (2020) 373 Torrid Auspicious Quartz (2020) 383 See By So (2020) 395 Duets Infer Duty (2020) 399 Orchard (2020) 411 Otherhood Imminent Profusion (2021) 417 Presume Catkins (2021) 427 Athwart Apron Snaps (2021) 435 Efflux Reference (2021) 443 Dune Quail Eggs (2021) 455 Lay Them Straight (2021) 459 Shade Furnace (2021) 465 Snooty Tipoffs (2021) 477 Sea Shells Told (2022) 543 At Raucous Purposeful (2022/2023) 551 Latency of the Conditional (2023) 571 Not Ice Novice (2022) 585 At the Monument (2022) 593 Foremost Wayleave (2023) 631 Hadnt Yet Bitten (2023) 653 Timepiece in Total (2024) 679 Alembic Forest (2024) 695 Bibliography 713 Index of Titles or First Lines 715

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NGR9781780376936
9781780376936
1780376936
Poems 2016-2024 by J.H. Prynne
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd
2024-06-21
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