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PN Review 177

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PN Review 177, featuring the cover painting ''Fish and Chips' (c. 1948) by Fred Laidler, includes:

*Poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Thomas Kinsella, Alison Brackenbury, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Roger Garfitt and others
*Tabish Khair on the language of Indian English Poetry
*Vicki Bertram talks to Lorna Goodison
*Peter McCarey joins the Woden Dog Fan Club
*Ross Cogan on poetry, football and lies
*A broad analysis of the current poetry scene, including reviews of works by John Ashbery, Eleanor Rees, Saskia Hamilton and Luciano Erba, plus A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry

*In his editorial, Michael Schmidt contrasts the health (or ill-health) of contemporary UK bookselling with the Left Bank literary culture of Sartre, Camus and Hemingway.

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 '...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 177 Edited by Michael Schmidt Series: PN Review Imprint: PN Review Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Description Editor Awards Reviews PN Review 177, featuring the cover painting ''Fish and Chips' (c. 1948) by Fred Laidler, includes: Poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Thomas Kinsella, Alison Brackenbury, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Roger Garfitt* and others Tabish Khair on the language of Indian English Poetry Vicki Bertram talks to Lorna Goodison Peter McCarey joins the Woden Dog Fan Club Ross Cogan on poetry, football and lies A broad analysis of the current poetry scene, including reviews of works by John Ashbery, Eleanor Rees, Saskia Hamilton* and Luciano Erba, plus A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry In his editorial, Michael Schmidt* contrasts the health (or ill-health) of contemporary UK bookselling with the Left Bank literary culture of Sartre, Camus and Hemingway. 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 '...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 Audio Books Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Angela Leighton: One, Two read more Parwana Fayyaz: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Sinad Morrissey on Conor Cleary read more The Earliest Witnesses: G.C. Waldrep read more Conor Cleary: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Tara Bergin on Suzannah V. Evans read more
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PN Review 177

Edited by Michael Schmidt