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PN Review 172

Edited by Michael Schmidt

PN Review 172
Series: PN Review
Imprint: PN Review
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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    PN Review 172, featuring a cover painting by Mary Harman, includes:


      

  • Poems by Robert Minhinnick, Evelyn Schlag, Sujata Bhatt, Dennis O'Driscoll and others
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  • Chris McCully on Ezra Pound
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  • David Gervais on Racine and the English
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  • M. Wynn Thomas re-reads the poetry of Vernon Watkins
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  • John Ashbery translates Pierre Reverdy
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  • A broad analysis of the current poetry scene, including reviews of works by Adrienne Rich, Conor O'Callaghan, Les Murray and Owen Sheers, amongst others
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  • In his editorial, Michael Schmidt argues that amidst the tragedy of Darfur, culture and politics ought not to be divisible.
  • 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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