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PN Review 224

Edited by Michael Schmidt

PN Review 224
Series: PN Review
Categories: 21st Century, American, British, French, Jewish, Women
Imprint: PN Review
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Journal (70 pages)
(Pub. Jun 2015)
9781784101350
Out of Stock
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  • Description
  • Editor
  • Awards
  • Reviews
  • Poems by 
    Christopher Middleton, Peter Hughes, Philip Terry, Yves Bonnefoy, David M. Katz, Yvonne Green, Sheenagh Pugh, Carol Rumens, Nausheen Eusuf, Gina Wilson, Aram Saroyan, Miles Burrows 

    Vidyan Ravinthiran reads the dictionary 
    Elaine Feinstein celebrates women poets 
    Ricardo Nirenberg takes a drive with Bonnefoy 
    David Nowell Smith salutes Reverdy 
    Sam Buchan-Watts on the New York School 

    Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He is general ... read more
    Awards won by Michael Schmidt Winner, 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Sasha Dugdale's 'Joy', published in PN Review 227  (PN Review 227 )
    Praise for Michael Schmidt 'Its pleasures are longer term ones: as you return to it and re-read its substantial selections, you come to appreciate how and what each contributor is working on.'

    Jane Routh, The North 66

    '...this is the joy of New Poetries VIII: time and again you discover refreshing and compelling new styles and subjects'

    Jake Morris-Campbell, The Poetry School

    '...probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world.'
    John Ashbery
     'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines.'
    Simon Armitage
    'It has attempted to take poetry out of the backwaters of intellectual life and to find in it again the crucial index of cultural health.'
    Cairns Craig, Times Literary Supplement
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