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PN Review 241

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The May-June 2018 issue

Featuring 'Forty Names' by Parwana Fayyaz, shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

Kei Miller’s essay ‘The Fat Black Woman’

Vahni Capildeo reports on Stanza Festival

New poems by Craig Raine

Gabriel Josipovici’s essay on Aharon Appelfeld

New poems by Afghan poet Parwana Fayyaz

Phoebe Power reviews Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds

and more...

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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PN Review 241 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Anthologies, Art, BAME, British, Canadian, Caribbean, Christianity, Christianity, Humour, Indian, Irish, Jewish, Language, Latin American, LGBTQ+, Memoirs, New Zealand, Scottish, Translation, Welsh, Women Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Journal (84 pages) (Pub. Apr 2018) 9781784101527 Out of Stock Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Editor Awards Reviews The May-June 2018 issue Featuring 'Forty Names' by Parwana Fayyaz, shortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Kei Miller’s essay ‘The Fat Black Woman’ Vahni Capildeo reports on Stanza Festival New poems by Craig Raine Gabriel Josipovici’s essay on Aharon Appelfeld New poems by Afghan poet Parwana Fayyaz Phoebe Power reviews Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds and more... 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	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Fyfield Books Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog In the Same Light: Wong May read more Some Interpretation: Padraig Regan read more PN Review 262: Editorial read more Rowan Williams: Collected Poems read more John F. Deane: Naming of the Bones read more Vahni Capildeo: Places of Writing read more
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PN Review 241

Edited by Michael Schmidt