PN Review 237: September - October 2017 - Softcover

Michael Schmidt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784101486 ISBN 13: 9781784101480

Publisher: PN Review, 2017

Synopsis

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

Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage

New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba

Cultural news from South Korea

PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets

New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan

Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: PN Review
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784101486
• ISBN 13: 9781784101480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• Editor: Michael Schmidt, Luke Allan