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Iain Sinclair: Prynne’s People, 22 October 2026

Waymarking a Life. Test Centre Books Catalogue 20: J.H. Prynne (1936-2026) 
by Will Shutes.
Test Centre Books, 76 pp., £15, August
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“... final chapbook from Face Press, was delivered by his faithful amanuensis and post-2014 publisher, Ian Heames, just in time.*The ultimate insult, given Prynne’s distrust of photographic capture, came when the obituaries in the Times and Telegraph were illustrated by a stolen agency shot of the affronted, winter-coated don on his wicker-basket ...”

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

“... than three hundred staff were deployed immediately. Or that the council’s director of education, Ian Heggs, was in discussion on the morning of 14 June with the heads of eight local schools (I’ve seen the emails) about pupils from the tower. Nor that the education officers met with school heads and arranged for pupils to have psychological support and to ...”