Overview
The November-December 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: editorial commemorating John Ashbery, who passed away in September 2017; previously unpublished poetry by Les Murray; an elegy poem for Fadwa Suleiman by Marilyn Hacker; a lecture by Gabriel Josipovici: a major account of risk-taking in translation; Vahni Capildeo discusses two translators and British/Polish translation; "Europe" by James Womack, an imitation poem after the German of Marie Luise Kaschnitz; and new poetry by Maureen N. McLane, Dario Jaramillo, Caroline Clark, and Lydia Allison.Author Biography
Luke Allan 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. He is the author of minimum soft exchange. 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, about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. 
