PN Review 255

Overview

The September-October 2020 issue. Rachel Hadas explores connections between literature and the pandemic. Jena Schmitt on ekphrasis (the description of artwork in writing), from Virgil to Tolstoy to Rilke. First published poem 'Elaine' by Katriona Feinstein, granddaughter of Elaine Feinstein. Sharron Hass on Sophocles' Farewell to Poetry, translated from the Hebrew. New poetry by Jee Leong Koh, Nyla Matuk, and Joe Carrick-Varty. New to PN Review this issue: Matthias Fechner, Rachel Hadas, Paul Stephenson, and Katriona Feinstein 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

John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002), which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. 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.