For the Future - Poems and Essays in Honour of J.H. Prynne on His 80th Birthday

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)

Product details

• Assisted by: Ian Brinton (Editor)
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781848614901
• ISBN: 978-1-84861-490-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies