Poet JH Prynne studied at Cambridge and has taught there for some time. He has published twenty-nine collections of poems from 1968–2009, all but two reprinted in his Poems (2005). He has also written some extended commentary-essays: on the Han Chinese lyric, on a painting by Willem de Kooning, on a sonnet by Shakespeare and on a short poem by Wordsworth, and a lecture on ‘Huts’.

See also Guardian profile of JH Prynne.