Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born 24 June 1936) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival. Prynne grew up in Kent and was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Jesus College, Cambridge. [1] . He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Prynne’s poetic procedures enabled his work to turn back upon the economic, political, and social realities of English life in a way that was without precedent. Prynne elaborated one of the basic techniques of modernist poetry to create an effect of the real.

At the English Faculty in Cambridge, everyone has a story to tell about JH Prynne, poet and life fellow of Gonville and Caius College: his mind-expanding lectures, his nocturnal hours, his personal generosity, his pithy opinions, his unchanging dress code, and his vast scholarship.

J.H. Prynne is a significant figure in post-war British poetry, particularly associated with the "British Poetry Revival" of the 1960s and 70s. His work has been profoundly influential on subsequent generations of poets.

Prynne published his first book of poems, Force of Circumstance, in 1962, and disowned it not long after. His next three books appeared in 1968, and since then he has steadily published a book every year or two.

‘The Art of Poetry No. 101: J.H. Prynne’. Paris Review, 218 (Fall 2016): 174–207. An edited interview with J.H. Prynne conducted and introduced by Jeff Dolven and Joshua Kotin. p. 174 reproduces an original manuscript page from J.H. Prynne, Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is. The issue also features a section of ‘Four Poems’ by ...

Long respected as a teacher at Cambridge University and librarian at Gonville and Caius College, J.H. Prynne is possibly the most significant English poet of the late twentieth century. A lyrical experimentalist, his work has mesmerised and attracted readers from around the world for …

Sep 23, 2022 · A catalogue of J.H. Prynne's poetry, prose, recordings and letters, as well as critical and artistic works related to Prynne.

– ‘J.H. Prynne: Drei Gedichte aus “The White Stones” (1969), in: J.H. Prynne: Poems, Bloodaxe Books 2005’ (19 March 2013). Online at https://leseanweisungen.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/j-h-prynne-2-drei-gedichte/ .

Jan 28, 2020 · Written during a period of political revolt—the student movement and London riots in the UK, the Occupy movement in the United States, and the Arab Spring—the poem is a visionary work of passion and fervor. For close to thirty pages of long-lined verse, edging towards prose, Prynne details a kind of ecstatic righteousness.