I thought I should mention that Mr Prynne's poetry is discussed briefly by
John Kinsella and Rod Mengham in Jacket magazine at this URL:
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket07/prynne-jk-rm.html
The piece is in the way of being an ad for the Prynne Collected Poems, and
appeared originally in the Bloodaxe Books catalogue. It has some
interesting things to say, though, among them:
"Prynne's is a unique poetry. While being of a tradition that stretches
back through Wordsworth, it is linguistically innovative and strongly
influenced by poetic languages outside the traditional English poem - be
they those of Ed Dorn or Charles Olson, contemporary Chinese poetry, or the
theories of Martin Heidegger. Prynne's work is often referred to in
semi-mystical terms as a result of its being difficult to get hold of. As
Prynne has avoided mainstream publishing it has been assumed that he
rejects the "general" readership, that his is a language of an informed and
"alternative" clique. But it is the indifference of the mainstream
publisher to "the work" itself that has been a problem for Prynne, and not
the idea of availability. Actually, quite to the contrary, the affordable
volume that can be read by anyone with an interest in what is going on in
the poem would appeal to Prynne. What Prynne would reject is the easy path
to comprehension."
best,
John Tranter, Jacket magazine
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