PNR interviews include:

Aharon Appelfeld --- John Ashbery --- George Barker --- Lennox Berkeley --- Sujata Bhatt --- Eavan Boland --- Alison Brackenbury --- Christine Brooke-Rose --- Brian Cox --- Donald Davie --- Elaine Feinstein --- Mavis Gallant --- Jean Genet --- Michael Hamburger --- Brian Jones --- Mimi Khalvati --- David Kinloch --- Michael Longley --- James Michie --- Edwin Morgan --- Les Murray --- Norman MacCaig --- Karen Press --- Kathleen Raine --- Edgell Rickword --- Evelyn Schlag --- C.H. Sisson --- Raymond Tallis --- Jeremy Treglown --- Sylvia Townsend Warner --- Edmund White --- Mary-Kay Wilmers --- Charles Wright




PNR contributors include:

Tatamkhulu Africa --- John Ash --- John Ashbery --- George Barker --- Patricia Beer --- Sujata Bhatt --- Caroline Bird --- Eavan Boland --- Alison Brackenbury --- Anne Carson --- Paul Celan --- Gillian Clarke --- Mark Doty --- D.J. Enright --- Elaine Feinstein --- Lorna Goodison --- W.S. Graham --- Durs Grunbein --- Thom Gunn --- Sophie Hannah --- Marilyn Hacker --- Seamus Heaney --- John Heath-Stubbs --- Michael Hofmann --- Mimi Khalvati --- Thomas Kinsella --- Kenneth Koch --- Marius Kociejowski --- Gunter Kunert --- R.F. Langley --- Gwyneth Lewis --- Dulce Maria Loynaz --- Carola Luther --- Patrick McGuinness --- Bill Manhire --- Christopher Middleton --- Robert --- Minhinnick --- Dom Moraes --- Edwin Morgan --- Sinead Morrissey --- Andrew Motion --- Paul Muldoon --- Les Murray --- Michael Palmer --- Pier Paolo Pasolini --- Octavio Paz --- John Peck --- Robert Pinsky --- Joachim Sartorius --- Peter Scupham --- C.H. Sisson --- Iain Crichton Smith --- Charles Tomlinson --- Jeffrey Wainwright --- Robert Wells --- Matthew Welton --- Gregory Woods --- Jane Yeh

History

Launched as Poetry Nation, a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, PN Review -- now an A4 paperback -- began quarterly publication in 1976 and has appeared six times a year since 1981 (PN Review 21). 185 issue of the magazine have now appeared. It is currently published from the department of English, University of Glasgow.

Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section.

Poetry Nation was founded by Michael Schmidt and Professor Brian Cox at the Victoria University of Manchester. When it went quarterly, the title changed to PN Review and Cox and Schmidt were joined on the editorial board by Professor Donald Davie and C.H. Sisson. Brian Cox retired, followed some years later by Donald Davie and C.H. Sisson, since when the magazine has been under the General Editorship of Michael Schmidt.

Mission

From its inception, PN Review has been dedicated to three principles.

English poetry is a continuum in time and the practice as well as the reading of poetry benefit from a broad knowledge and understanding of the development of the art and craft.

English poetry is poetry in English. Nationalisms, the insistence on cultural separateness and division, impoverish poetry quite as much as colonial impositions do: PN Review is 'poésie sans frontiers', with an Anglo-Commonwealth and Anglo-American bias, and with a strong commitment to poetry in translation, past and present.

Anglo-American and European Modernisms provide their legacies.