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PN Review 249

Edited by Michael Schmidt and Andrew Latimer

PN Review 249 Cover
  • Description
  • Editors
  • Awards
  • Reviews
  • The September-October 2019 issue

    New poem sequence by Kei Miller about names of places

    Don Share’s controversial lecture about Whitman and politics

    New poems by Tara Bergin

    Anthologist of Black-American poetry, Anthony Walton, looks back 20 years and measures the changes for Black-American writers

    Kyoo Lee and Marjorie Perloff in discussion about the nature of identity in poetry

    New to PN Review this issue: Jason Allen-Paisant, Jo Davis, Andrew Jordan and Petra White

    and more...
    Michael Schmidt
    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
    Andrew Latimer
    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 . ... 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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