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Author_Jana Prikryl
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Cordelia
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Declan Ryan
Emily Dickinson
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Guggenheim Fellow
John Ashbery
Karen Solie
King Lear
Louise Gluck
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New York Review of Books
Shakespeare
storms
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- ISBN 9780571401383
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jana Prikryl's poems wrestle with problems of power and selfhood in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. The play depends on her silence, but outside of the play her voice may make us audible to ourselves. These poems contemplate, brilliantly and dynamically, authority familial and cultural, illnesses of mind and of body, flights across borders and languages, on nights lit only by violent storms.
Jana Prikryl is the author of the poetry collections The Channel, Midwood, No Matter and The After Party. A Guggenheim Fellow, among other honours, she is the executive editor at The New York Review of Books. Prikryl was born in the former Czechoslovakia, grew up in Canada and now lives in Brooklyn with her son.
