The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine his early baldness (Skalla in

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

the New Statesman as ‘remarkable’

A quarter of a century and more since the fall of communism

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

The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne A Herring Famine his early baldness (Skalla inThis 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