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Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Basil Bunting. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962. His Poems (1982) collected all the work he wanted to keep in print. An expanded and updated version appeared in 1999.
Prynne was one of the key figures in the Cambridge group of Revival poets and was a major contributor to The English Intelligencer.
In addition to his poetry, Prynne has published a wide range of critical and academic prose and wrote a critical essay for New Songs from a Jade Terrace , an anthology of early Chinese love poetry which appeared in 1982.