Poems 2016-2024 by J. H. Prynne Roald Dahl The poet’s eye for detail

The poet’s eye for detail and his immense erudition produce what Wallace Stevens called ‘a mythology [that] reflects its region

these poems also wield their own precise and radical power to name and reclaim

nuanced and ultimately transformative

specifically Helen’s supposed deceit and infidelity

losers and remembrancers passes through his writing

Poems 2016-2024 by J. H. Prynne Roald Dahl The poet’s eye for detailJ. 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