J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wished to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1999 as Poems, with a second, expanded edition in 2005, and a third in 2015. Prynne is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005 he retired from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College in 2006.

J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wished to keep in print, beginning with Kitchen Poems (1968). An expanded and updated version was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1999 as Poems, with a second, expanded edition in 2005, and a third in 2015. Prynne is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 2005 he retired from his posts teaching English Literature as a Lecturer and University Reader in English Poetry for the University of Cambridge and as Director of Studies in English for Gonville and Caius College; he retired as Librarian of the College in 2006.