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J.H. Prynne

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36 new poems. Risograph printed throughout, by Earthbound Press, London, on acid free paper. Large format book (~A4). Hand-sewn with red linen thread. Covers risograph printed in metallic gold, in seven variant designs. Grey endpapers.…

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Digitally printed on acid-free paper, with two full-colour images. Specially commissioned hand-made cotton rag paper covers (each unique). Stitched with brass wires. Peach endpapers. 24pp.Edition of 150 copies, published May 2023.The text…

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Six new poems. Digitally printed on laid paper. Full colour title page. Covers risograph printed by Earthbound Press, London. Bound with brass wires. Bright blue endpapers. 28pp.Edition of 150 copies, February 2023.

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Fifteen new poems. Digitally printed. Large format book (200 x 289mm). Stitched with brass wires. Covers risograph printed by Earthbound Press. Deep yellow endpapers. 28pp.Edition of 150 copies, September 2023.

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326pp, green endpapers. 281 new poems, in five numbered sections, amassing between them eleven epigraphs (from Samuel Beckett, Plenty Coups, John Gay, James Schuyler, and Christian Wolff, among other sources).Six blue section-marker leaves…

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16pp. Risograph printed by Earthbound Press on acid-free paper. Forty-four rhyming quatrains. Pictorial title page. Edition of 150 copies.

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Douglas Oliver (1937–2000) and J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) are two of the most original and ambitious poets of the contemporary era. Eschewing the conservativism of mainstream postwar British verse and embracing influences from…

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16pp. Risograph printed by Earthbound Press on acid-free paper. Translucent endpapers. Bound with brass wires. A poem in four paragraphs. Pictorial title page. Edition of 150 copies.

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11 new poems in an edition of 400 copies. 'Passionate fruitcake' (Shelf Three).

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New short poem. 8pp. Face Press, Cambridge.

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A new poem, dated 20 June 2021. Edition of 250 copies. Risograph printed and collated, bound and trimmed by hand.

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32 pages. Text lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Wire stitched in wrappers, risograph printed in full colour. Brass wires. Edition of 250 copies. 24 poems.

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24 pages. Lithograph printed on acid-free paper, with colour title page and colophon. Front cover risograph printed in gold. Edition of 250. Stitched with brass wires. A poem in 20 numbered sections.

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48 pages, in heavy textured card wrappers42 new poems

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12 pages. Lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Covers risographed in red, inside and out. Edition of 250. Stitched with brass wires. A poem in 8 stanzas.

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20 pages. Lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Covers digitally printed, inside and out, with no two copies exactly alike. Edition of 250. Stitched with brass wires. 16 poems.

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20 pages. A collection of fourteen poems. Risograph printed on recycled acid-free paper by Earthbound Press, London, and hand-sewn into specially commissioned handmade paper wrappers using linen thread. Full-colour title page…

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A5 landscape, 20 pages.

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25 poems on different fruit trees.

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Puttenham defines 'apophthegm' as 'a short, pretty and instructive Sentence, chiefly of a grave and eminent person'; here is a unique collection of apophthegms assembled by the poet J.H. Prynne.

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20 pages. Covers digitally printed on 300gsm acid-free paper. Front cover digitally printed in blue; inside covers printed in full colour. Edition of 250. Stitched with brass wires. 16 poems.

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The next installment of the ongoing Memory Working series. 24pp.

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In 1975 J.H. Prynne published High Pink on Chrome. The publication was to be avidly devoured by his admirers and fellow poets. Prynne's example loomed large, especially in Cambridge, and John James and Andrew Crozier would both often…

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28 pages. A collection of ten poems. Risograph printed on recycled acid-free paper by Earthbound Press, London. Produced in two editions, each of 366 copies—a larger paper format (roughly A5), and a pocket edition (roughly A6).…

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This most recent experiment with words on the page continues the duet-passage between J.H. Prynne and the possibilities of lyrical transformation, subsequent eventually to Poems (Bloodaxe, 2015).

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This volume is a new annotated edition of J.H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and…

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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…

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J. H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere…

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20 pages. Lithograph printed on acid-free paper. Covers digitally printed in red, inside and out. Collects seven new poems subsequent to the first printing of Memory Working. Produced in two editions, each of 366 copies—a…

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