Overview
The Winter 2016 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding literary journals of our time.Reviews
"Breaking new ground." —The Guardian
"Probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world." —John Ashbery, executive editor, Art News
"The most important journal concerned with poetry." —Marilyn Butler, editorial board, Women: A Cultural Review
"The cleverest of the current poetry magazines." —Ian Hamilton, editor, The New ReviewAuthor Biography
Luke Allan 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, will be published by MIEL in 2015. 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.
