PN Review 236 - Softcover

Michael Schmidt

 
9781784101473: PN Review 236

Synopsis

The July-August 2017 edition of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

Discovered: an unpublished letter from George Washington!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

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

Luke Allan (Managing Editor) 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, was published by MIEL in 2015.

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