
Poems
(2015) third edition
J. H. Prynne(Author)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 23. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
704 pages
978-1-78037-154-2 (ISBN)
Description
J.H. Prynne is Britain's 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. This expanded third edition of Poems (2015) includes the complete texts of his later work: Refuse Collection (2004), To Pollen (2006), STREAK---WILLING---ENTOURAGE---ARTESIAN (2009), Sub Songs (2010), Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is (2011), and Al-Dente (2014), all previously available only in limited editions.
Reviews / Votes
'Without doubt the most formidable and accomplished poet in England today, a writer who has single-handedly changed the vocabulary of expression' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times. 'The longer I have stayed with these pieces, the more they have moved and haunted me; the more I have felt altered by having experienced them - Prynne is hard-going, off-putting, and much disliked by many more traditional writers; he is also, when one gets into him, so good that he changes the way you think and feel' - Robert Potts, Guardian (Books of the Year). 'This book is one of the most inventive, intelligently experimental collected poems of the century' - Adam Phillips, Observer.More details
Edition
Third edition (enlarged)
Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1543 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-154-2 (9781780371542)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Book
06/2005
2nd Edition
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
€38.57
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Person
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, with a second, expanded edition in 2005. The third edition of Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) includes the complete texts of his later work: Refuse Collection (2004), To Pollen (2006), Streak---Willing---Entourage---Artesian (2009), Sub Songs (2010), Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is (2011), and Al-Dente (2014), all previously uncollected or available in limited editions, as well as a group of previously unpublished poems. 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 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. 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.
Content
Kitchen Poems (1968) 9
Day Light Songs (1968) 25
Voll Verdienst 33
The White Stones (1969) 37
A Note on Metal [1968] 127
5 Uncollected Poems 133
Fire Lizard (1970) 141
Brass (1971) 149
10 Uncollected Poems 181
A Night Square (1971) 193
Into The Day (1972) 201
Wound Response (1974) 215
The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts 233
2 Uncollected Poems 243
High?Pink on Chrome (1975) 247
The Land of Saint Martin 265
Vernal Aspects 271
News of Warring Clans (1977) 275
4 Uncollected Poems 287
Down where changed (1979) 293
The Oval Window (1983) 311
Bands Around the Throat (1987) 341
Word Order (1989) 359
Jie ban mi Shi Hu (1992) 379
Not-You (1993) 381
Her Weasels Wild Returning (1994) 409
For the Monogram (1997) 417
Red D Gypsum (1998) 433
Pearls That Were (1999) 451
Triodes (1999) 477
Unanswering Rational Shore (2001) 517
Acrylic Tips (2002) 533
Biting the Air (2003) 549
Blue Slides At Rest [2004] 565
Refuse Collection [2004] 577
To Pollen (2006) 581
Streak --- Willing --- Entourage / Artesian (2009) 593
Sub Songs (2010) 607
6 Uncollected Poems 627
Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is (2011) 635
Al-Dente (2014) 663
Index of Titles or First Lines 673
Day Light Songs (1968) 25
Voll Verdienst 33
The White Stones (1969) 37
A Note on Metal [1968] 127
5 Uncollected Poems 133
Fire Lizard (1970) 141
Brass (1971) 149
10 Uncollected Poems 181
A Night Square (1971) 193
Into The Day (1972) 201
Wound Response (1974) 215
The Plant Time Manifold Transcripts 233
2 Uncollected Poems 243
High?Pink on Chrome (1975) 247
The Land of Saint Martin 265
Vernal Aspects 271
News of Warring Clans (1977) 275
4 Uncollected Poems 287
Down where changed (1979) 293
The Oval Window (1983) 311
Bands Around the Throat (1987) 341
Word Order (1989) 359
Jie ban mi Shi Hu (1992) 379
Not-You (1993) 381
Her Weasels Wild Returning (1994) 409
For the Monogram (1997) 417
Red D Gypsum (1998) 433
Pearls That Were (1999) 451
Triodes (1999) 477
Unanswering Rational Shore (2001) 517
Acrylic Tips (2002) 533
Biting the Air (2003) 549
Blue Slides At Rest [2004] 565
Refuse Collection [2004] 577
To Pollen (2006) 581
Streak --- Willing --- Entourage / Artesian (2009) 593
Sub Songs (2010) 607
6 Uncollected Poems 627
Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is (2011) 635
Al-Dente (2014) 663
Index of Titles or First Lines 673