Description
* 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 PNR 239 on the Twitter poets; * New poems in English and translation by Marilyn Hacker, Samira Negrouche, Angela Leighton, Ned Denny and others
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.
Reviews
'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
Book Information
ISBN 9781784101510
Author Michael Schmidt
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint PN Review
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
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.
Reviews
'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
Book Information
ISBN 9781784101510
Author Michael Schmidt
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint PN Review
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
