PN Review 236 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784101478 ISBN 13: 9781784101473

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2018

The July-August 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights: • Discovered: an unpublished letter from George Washington! • Eleven Celebrations of Tom Raworth • Vahni Capildeo goes to Hell – and back • Apples in Asturias: James Womack brings us Alejandro Fernandez-Osorio’s ‘Pomace’, a rich and cidery prose poem • Jane Draycott translates Henri Michaux • Andrew Latimer engages the retiring Alex Wong in conversation • New poems by Gillian Allnutt, John Clegg, Claudine Toutoungi and others • Edwin Morgan on machines as translators • Includes translations from the Arabic, French and Asturian

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About the Author

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. He lives in Manchester.

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