PN Review 280 by Michael Schmidt

PN Review 280 by Michael Schmidt

The November-December 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes the first translation of Dante's Inferno by a Jamaican poet (Lorna Goodison); the introduction of the Afghan poet Mahbouba Ibrahimi in translations by Parwana Fayyaz of the Forward Prize; Kirsty Gunn on key New Zealand writers; John McAuliffe on Heaney as translator and letter writer; and a letter from Madrid by Anthony Vahni Capildeo. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.

'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.

John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review. He is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII.

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ISBN 13	9781800174238
ISBN 10	1800174233
Title	PN Review 280
Author	Michael Schmidt
Series	Pn Review
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2024-12-12
Number of pages	72
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