In Defiance of “Cant”: J. H. Prynne’s Sub Songs
In Defiance of “Cant”: J. H. Prynne’s Sub Songs

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on J. H. Prynne’s 2010 volume Sub Songs, arguing that the poems respond to the reality of crisis-ridden Britain. Particularly, it is the jargons of neoliberal economy that are explored and opposed, as Prynne’s poems challenge the simplistic and thought-deadening language of the contemporary world, they offer a chance to cast about for new ways of sense-making.

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