PN Review 177, featuring the cover painting ''Fish and Chips' (c. 1948) by Fred Laidler, includes:

*Poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Thomas Kinsella, Alison Brackenbury, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Roger Garfitt and others
*Tabish Khair on the language of Indian English Poetry
*Vicki Bertram talks to Lorna Goodison
*Peter McCarey joins the Woden Dog Fan Club
*Ross Cogan on poetry, football and lies
*A broad analysis of the current poetry scene, including reviews of works by John Ashbery, Eleanor Rees, Saskia Hamilton and Luciano Erba, plus A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry


*In his editorial, Michael Schmidt contrasts the health (or ill-health) of contemporary UK bookselling with the Left Bank literary culture of Sartre, Camus and Hemingway.