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PN Review 238

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• Editorial commemorating John Ashbery (passed away September 2017)

• Previously unpublished poetry by Les Murray

• An elegy poem for Fadwa Suleiman by Marilyn Hacker

• A lecture by Gabriel Josipovici: a major account of risk-taking in translation

• Vahni Capildeo discusses two translators and British/Polish translation

• ‘Europe’ by James Womack, an imitation poem after the German of Marie Luise Kaschnitz

• New poetry by Maureen N. McLane, Dario Jaramillo, Caroline Clark and Lydia Allison

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 238 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, African, American, Anthologies, BAME, British, Caribbean, Christianity, Christianity, German, Irish, Jewish, Language, Latin American, LGBTQ+, Memoirs, Polish, Translation, Women Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Journal (72 pages) (Pub. Nov 2017) 9781784101497 Out of Stock Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Editor Awards Reviews • Editorial commemorating John Ashbery (passed away September 2017) • Previously unpublished poetry by Les Murray • An elegy poem for Fadwa Suleiman by Marilyn Hacker • A lecture by Gabriel Josipovici: a major account of risk-taking in translation • Vahni Capildeo discusses two translators and British/Polish translation • ‘Europe’ by James Womack, an imitation poem after the German of Marie Luise Kaschnitz • New poetry by Maureen N. McLane, Dario Jaramillo, Caroline Clark and Lydia Allison 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 PN Review 266: Editorial read more Ian Pople: Spillway: New and Selected Poems read more Peter Sansom: Lanyard read more PN Review 265: Under the Cover with Gregory O'Brien read more PN Review 265: Editorial read more Patrick Worsnip: On Translating Saba read more
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PN Review 238

Edited by Michael Schmidt