For the Future

In June 2016 J.H. Prynne celebrates his 80th birthday. A major figure in contemporary British poetry he and his work are here celebrated by friends and admirers with new poems and essays on his writings. Both a festschrift and a study of a highly original body of work the collection offers something for all readers of Prynne's poetry.J.H. Prynne is without doubt the most formidable and accomplished poet in England today a writer who has single-handedly changed the vocabulary of expression and who through his teaching at Cambridge has re-educated the sensibility of an entire generation of students.'' -Peter Ackroyd (Sunday Times 3 December 1987)