PN Review 240 - Softcover

Michael Schmidt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784101516 ISBN 13: 9781784101510

Publisher: PN Review, 2018

Synopsis

The March-April 2018 edition of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

PN REVIEW PRIZE: featuring the winning and commended poems

Peter Scupham at 85: celebrating a great poet, humourist and long-time contributor

Poet, translator and MPT editor Sasha Dugdale in conversation

Vahni Capildeo on sexual violence

More on the controversy surrounding Rebecca Watts's essay in PN Review 239 on the Twitter poets

New poems in English and translation by Marilyn Hacker, Samira Negrouche, Angela Leighton, Ned Denny and others

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: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784101516
• ISBN 13: 9781784101510
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Michael Schmidt, Luke Allan