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PN Review 239

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The January-February 2018 issue

• A special issue featuring ‘John Ashbery: A Tribute’, with contributions from Mark Ford, Marina Warner, Philip Terry, Ágnes Lehóczky and others...

• Julian Stannard reviews Kate Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos

• Rebecca Watts, ‘The Cult of the Noble Amateur’ - article on the changing landscape of contemporary poetry

• Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘My desire has the features of a woman’ - two letters translated from the Russian by Christopher Whyte

• Vahni Capildeo, ‘Letter from Canberra’

• Includes poetry by Richard Price, Miles Champion, Maya C. Popa and Mária Ferenčuhová

• New poetry by William Gilson, Rachel Spence, Charlotte Eichler and Yvonne Reddick

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 239 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, African, American, Anthologies, BAME, British, Caribbean, Christianity, Christianity, Irish, Jewish, Language, Latin American, LGBTQ+, Memoirs, New Zealand, Russian, Scottish, Translation, Welsh, Women Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Journal (80 pages) (Pub. Dec 2017) 9781784101503 Out of Stock Digital access available through Exact Editions Description Editor Awards Reviews The January-February 2018 issue • A special issue featuring ‘John Ashbery: A Tribute’, with contributions from Mark Ford, Marina Warner, Philip Terry, Ágnes Lehóczky and others... • Julian Stannard reviews Kate Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos • Rebecca Watts, ‘The Cult of the Noble Amateur’ - article on the changing landscape of contemporary poetry • Marina Tsvetaeva, ‘My desire has the features of a woman’ - two letters translated from the Russian by Christopher Whyte • Vahni Capildeo, ‘Letter from Canberra’ • Includes poetry by Richard Price, Miles Champion, Maya C. Popa and Mária Ferenčuhová • New poetry by William Gilson, Rachel Spence, Charlotte Eichler and Yvonne Reddick 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 239

Edited by Michael Schmidt