PN Review 258

by Schmidt, Michael; Latimer, Andrew; McAuliffe, John

• ISBN13: 9781784108373
• ISBN10: 1784108375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-06-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The March-April 2021 issue. The last interview with the poet John Ash. Major new talent featured: Michael Brett. Novelist Kirsty Gunn reads Henry James during lockdown. Reem Abbas, the young Palestinian poet, explores the Ghazal. Tony Roberts examines the Publisher/Poet relationship (Giroux and Berryman). New poetry by Jane Duran, Yeow Kai Chai, Rebecca Perry, & Shane McCrae. New to PN Review this issue: Reem Abbas, Francis O'Hare, John Fitzgerald, & Maurice Riordan. And more...

Author Biography

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. 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.