Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) letters When Making Cocoa for Kingsley

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986

let it be Top Doll

Set among this dazzling flock of species are seven sections celebrating the 'Seven Wonders' that together make up the everyday miracle of 'Bird': Nest

from agnosticism to Christianity to Sufi Islam

'A mosaic of wise

Poems by J. H. Prynne (3rd edition, 2015) letters When Making Cocoa for KingsleyJ. 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