PN Review 282

The March-April 2025 issue.

PN Review 282 is about renewal, finding and re-finding resources – in translation, in the hymn tradition, in the classics; and it is about the ways literature at large and poetry in particular come to terms with historical events and crises in the present world. It also rehears and retells our formative years, discovering how they prefigure and are corrected by the present.

Featured article 1
Siné ad Morrissey 'The Lightbox'

Featured article 2
Rod Mengham 'Cold War Hot Air'

Featured article 3
Gregory Woods 'On Queer Poetry...'

Also in this issue
Sergey Zavyalov 'Horatian Paraphrases' translated by J. Kates
Anthony V. Capildeo 'Skeletons in the Closet'
Sasha Dugdale 'On learning that Russian mothers buy their soldier sons lucky belts'
James Womack 'The Philosophy of Translation'
Andrew Hadfield 'Readings of Milton'

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. 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.