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The May-June 2023 issue During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes new artwork Antony Gormley and Mary Griffiths; poetry from Gillian Clarke, Tara Bergin, Sheri Benning; wonderful anecdotes from Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Dan Burt, Rebecca Watts, Philip Terry, Jeffrey Wainwright, and Carol Rumens; tributes from Lorna Goodison and Bill Manhire; and an AI generated conversation between William Empson and Robert Graves. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others. We'll be celebrating throughout the year: look out for announcements of our events in the autumn, and subscribe to our free newsletter to get choice morsels of archive straight to your inbox. https://pnreview.substack.com/

The March-April 2023 issue An issue of dialogues, with whales, with Rimbaud, with Mexico, Afghanistan, Germany, Canada, with John Lucas, D.H. Lawrence and many more Includes new poems by Colm Tóibín, Claudine Toutoungi, Parwana Fayyaz, Stav Poleg and others Anthony Vahni Capildeo 'Touch and Mourning' Zohar Atkins 'Are Philosophers Normal?' New to PN Review this issue: Fabio Morabito, Sarah Mnatzaganian, Mark Haworth-Booth and Maithreyi Karnoor and more...

The November-December 2021 issue Includes 'Scattered Snows, to the North' by Carl Phillips, shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem Award 2022 Major spread of poems by Carl Phillips, one of America's leading contemporary poets, essayists and translators Jee Leong Koh's erotic lyrics Poet-editor Rachael Allen in conversation Raymond Williams remembered Francesca Brooks's 'Love Letters of the Hampstead Modernists' New to PN Review this issue: Subha Mukherji, Charlie Louth, Joyelle McSweeney and Michelle Penn and more...

The September-October 2021 issue; PN Review has a 'soft relaunch' with a new cover design, new internal design and layout; Dutch supplement: outstanding new writing from Holland; Major essays:; Colm Toibin on Thom Gunn; David Herman on 'The Last Jewish Intellectual' - Edward Said; Gwyneth Lewis on Gillian Clarke's The Gododdin; New to PN Review this issue: Alice Hiller, Theodore Ell, Jane King and Joshua Weiner; and more...

The September-October 2022 issue. Anthony Vahni Capildeo explores mourning. Stav Poleg travels between languages. Anthony Rudolf evokes being a life model for Paula Rego. Jeffrey Meyers reflects on W.H. Auden. Nicolas Tredell considers computers as poets. New to PN Review this issue: Kyoka Hadano, Fawzia Muradali Kane, Ulrike Almut Sandig and Kudzai Zinyemba. And more...

The March-April 2022 issue; Major interview with American poet Carl Philips; Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation; Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein; Isobel Williams adds to her Shibari Catullus; John Clegg discovers Mrs Bleaney; New to PN Review this issue: Wendelin Wai C. Law, Alex Macdonald, Nuash Sabah and Colin Bramwell; and more...

The January-February 2022 issue. Major essay by Alberto Manguel on translating Dante. Sasha Dugdale's radical new translation of Osip Mandelstam, with an important commentary by Andrew Kahn. Jenny Lewis on translating from languages one does not know first hand. Frederic Raphael pens one of his Last Post letters to Vladimir Nabokov (Mes hommages, cher Volodya, si j'ose dire. Frederic.). New to PN Review this issue: Romulo Bustos Aguirre, Armando Uribe, Kerrin P. Sharpe and Amy Crutchfield. And more...

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...

The July-August 2022 issue. Major autobiographical essay by Alberto Manguel. Fleur Adcock writes an elegy for her long-time editor. James Campbell takes us on a tour of the TLS and his celebrated NB page. Vahni Capildeo visits Charles Causley's world. Tony Roberts evokes the original Iowa Writers' Workshop and its personalities. Richard Gwyn takes us into the Dark Woods of Latin America. New to PN Review this issue: Hsien Min Toh, Catherine Esther-Cowie, Dominic Leonard and Kit Fan. And more...

The May-June 2022 issue. Interview feature: Julia Blackburn talks to the artist Jeff Fisher. Kirsty Gunn on Henry James. Rory Waterman talking with Gerry Cambridge of The Dark Horse. Meditations on language and how it works. New to PN Review this issue: Jay Gao, Shash Trevett, Louis Klee and Jeremy Page. And more...