Poems 2016-2024J. H. Prynne As John Clegg has recently put it, 'J. H. Prynnes work is difficult, but (unlike the work of many other difficult poets) it is not at all cryptic. Theres no sense of meaning being withheld or obscured; nothing cries out for elucidation. It doesnt mean, in that sense, at all, and if instead of getting annoyed by it you allow yourself to be swept away, it is buffeting and exhilarating, not at all like any other poetry in the world.'

Each poem is accompanied by an exacting

Its mouth shifts

Collega’s zijn van dezelfde generatie als zijn dochter die hij in zijn eentje heeft opgevoed

There’s an air of perfection around these poems – and I believe some of them are as perfect as any of us could hope to get – but this means that they don’t allow for hype from the sides

As the great Patrick Ewing told his boys once he made the NBA & played against Larry Bird for the first time

and Dom Orejudos in establishing a unique pack of hungry werewolves

Deze bundels fungeerden als poëtisch voorland voor het bejubelde en bekroonde Roeshoofd hemelt

danger and safety

where each cycle spins and sings new registers of connective depth

medicated depression and television's ubiquitous influence

De band met hun vader heeft menig dichter geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van misschien wel hun beste werk

each line picked apart by the next and brought into the new body