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PN Review 237

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Featuring the poem 'And death demands a labor' by Sumita Chakraborty, shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

• Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage
• New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba
• Cultural news from South Korea
• PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets
• New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan
• Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.

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 )

'...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 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

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PN Review 237 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Anthologies, BAME, British, Caribbean, Christianity, Christianity, Greek, Jewish, Latin American, LGBTQ+, New Zealand, Scottish, Translation, Welsh, Women Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Editor Awards Reviews Featuring the poem 'And death demands a labor' by Sumita Chakraborty, shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem • Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage • New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba • Cultural news from South Korea • PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets • New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan • Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet. 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 ) '...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 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	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more PN Review 279: Elegies by Lorna Goodison read more Conjurors: Julian Orde read more Citizen Poet: Eavan Boland read more Library Lives: Stella Halkyard read more Tablets: Dunya Mikhail read more
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PN Review 237

Edited by Michael Schmidt