Poems 2016-2024 by J. H. Prynne Harvard University Press The Felix Dennis Prize for

The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection

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which often outline the circumstances that gave rise to a poem

juxtaposition and defamiliarisation work to subvert conventional notions of self and the feminine…Hill returns repeatedly to fragmented narratives

Poems 2016-2024 by J. H. Prynne Harvard University Press The Felix Dennis Prize forJ. 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