PN Review 260

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

• ISBN13: 9781784108397
• ISBN10: 1784108391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-10-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The July-August 2021 issue. Major account by Poet of Europe Sinead Morrissey of her experiences in Gdansk, with reflections on the Belfast troubles among which she grew up. Sujata Bhatt breaks a long poetic silence with a suite of new poems. Rory Waterman and Poetry London editor Andre Naffis-Sahely converse, and sparks fly. Caitlion Stobie's amazing tribute to Tony Harrison's V, a new poem entitled W, bridges the gap between his politics and ours. New to PN Review this issue: Padraig Regan, Jordi Sarsanedas, Nuash Sabah, and Kare Caoimhe Arthur. And more...

Author Biography

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.