PN Review celebrated its 30th anniversary at a garden party in Highgate on Monday evening, hosted by Lord and Lady Gavron with support from Corona Beer. Poets, editors, publishers, and members of the press gathered to mark the occasion, which featured speeches by Lady Gavron, Professor Michael Schmidt OBE, Professor Andrew Motion and Christopher Maclehose of Harvill.
 
Michael Schmidt reflected on 30 years as editor of the magazine John Ashbery described as 'the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world'. The Poet Laureate recalled having his first poems published in PN Review as a student in 1975, and praised PN Review's remarkable history as one of the most engaged and intellectually rigorous literary magazines of our time.
 
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The thirtieth anniversary edition of PN Review, featuring a cover painting by Mary Harman, includes poems by R.F. Langley, Ginnie Wiehardt, Gerry McGrath, John Heath-Stubbs, Marilyn Hacker and others. Features include Robyn Marsack on Edwin Morgan's people and places, Chris McCully on Marlowe, Mark Thwaite on poetry websites, Carol Rumens in conversation with Alice Entwistle and Raymond Tallis on the death of immortality. As always, PN Review offers a broad analysis of the current poetry scene, with this issue including reviews of works by Geoffrey Hill, Richard Wilbur, Adam Czerniawski and Cesar Vallejo, amongst others. In his editorial, Michael Schmidt looks back on thirty years of incisive comment and innovative new poetry from PN Review.