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The May-June 2019 issue

Memoirs of Brodsky in Leningrad and Ginsberg in Prague

News: Colombia arrests man for trafficking in poetry

Andy Croft deconstructs the poetry industry

East meets West in ‘A New Divan’

Vahni Capildeo considers shipwrecks

New poetry from Lisa Kelly, Sean O’Brien, Joe Carrick-Varty and others

New to PN Review this issue: Charles Bernstein, Jennifer Edgecombe, Michael Farrell and Samira Negrouche

and more...

Michael Schmidt

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

Andrew Latimer

Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review . He is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress ) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII . ... 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 247 Edited by Michael Schmidt and Andrew Latimer 10% off Series: PN Review Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, African, American, Ancient Greek and Roman, Anthologies, Art, Australian, BAME, British, Caribbean, Christianity, French, Humour, Irish, Jewish, Language, Latin American, LGBTQ+, Medieval, Memoirs, Spanish and Catalan, Translation, Welsh, Women Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Journal (64 pages) (Pub. Apr 2019) 9781784108267 £6.99 £6.29 Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Editors Awards Reviews The May-June 2019 issue Memoirs of Brodsky in Leningrad and Ginsberg in Prague News: Colombia arrests man for trafficking in poetry Andy Croft deconstructs the poetry industry East meets West in ‘A New Divan’ Vahni Capildeo considers shipwrecks New poetry from Lisa Kelly, Sean O’Brien, Joe Carrick-Varty and others New to PN Review this issue: Charles Bernstein, Jennifer Edgecombe, Michael Farrell and Samira Negrouche and more... Michael Schmidt 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 Andrew Latimer Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review . He is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress ) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII . ... 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 247

Edited by Michael Schmidt and Andrew Latimer