PN Review 269

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

• ISBN13: 9781800173682
• ISBN10: 1800173687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-05-17
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The January-February 2023 issue. Horatio Morpurgo revisits Bertrand Russell and Jurassic Marble. Lesley Harrison and the whalers' diaries, how a language and culture survive. Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Islands. Basil Bunting's Letters from two perspectives: Don Share and August Kleinzahler. Craig Raine being and not being Whitman. Anthony Huen on the Hong Kong Moment. New to PN Review this issue: Kate Hendry, Petra White, Diane Mehta and Philip Armstrong. 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. 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. 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.