Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) John Burnside fear and the limits of

fear and the limits of our knowledge – we can and cannot say about one of the most profound events we can face

Bal marks the transposition between external forms of oppression and their internalization

and the contemporary world

into some ugly corners

'- 'The Year of the Dead'

Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) John Burnside fear and the limits ofJ. 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