The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine Girling (Fitzcarraldo)

Girling (Fitzcarraldo)

he writes:

the New Statesman as ‘remarkable’

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

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level

The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine Girling (Fitzcarraldo)This 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