PN Review 254

Overview

The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic, Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown, interviews with the great American poet Douglas Crace, with Forward Prize 2020 shortlisted poet Caroline Bird, and the major Irish poet John McAuliffe. New poetry by Sean O'Brien, Jane Draycott, and John Birtwhistle. New to PN Review this issue: Rachel Spence, Edmund Keeley, Maya C. Popa, and Hugh Haughton and more...

Reviews

'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

Author Biography

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. 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.