The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine reading a sinuous

reading a sinuous

his early baldness (Skalla in his name means 'bald') and his exceptional ugliness

conjuring a life rich with 'whispering pelts' in theatre cloakrooms

he writes:

retelling a childhood shuttled from one carer to another

The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine reading a sinuousThis volume is a new annotated edition of J. H. Prynne's 1983 poem The Oval Window, making use of photographs taken by the poet at the time and place of composition, together with a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material. This source material includes political and economic news published during the period in early autumn 1983 when the poem was written, together with extracts from literature, Eastern and Western