Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) John Burnside Fly on the Wall

Fly on the Wall

and the contemporary world

and The Interpreter’s House among others

Damian Walford Davies and Robert Minhinnick

fear and the limits of our knowledge – we can and cannot say about one of the most profound events we can face

Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) John Burnside Fly on the WallJ. H. Prynne (1936 2026) was 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 had the possibilities of poetry been so fundamentally questioned and extended as they were