PN Review by Michael Schmidt
Featuring the poem 'And death demands a labor' by Sumita Chakraborty, shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage; New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba; Cultural news from South Korea; PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets; New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan; Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.
'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
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 editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.; Luke Allan (Managing Editor) studied Literature & Creative Writing at UEA. Before joining Carcanet in 2015 he worked as a project manager in the Arts in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and managed Studio Alec Finlay and the poetry press Morning Star. He is founding-director of the poetry press sine wave peak and co-founder of the poetry magazine Butcher's Dog; he also edits the journal Quait and is former editor of the Newcastle Philosophy Society journal. In 2011 his poetry received a Northern Promise Award. His first collection, minimum soft exchange, was published by MIEL in 2015.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784101480 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784101486 |
| Title | PN Review |
| Author | Michael Schmidt |
| Series | Pn Review Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018 |
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