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The March-April 2026 issuePN Review 288 features the introduction and rediscovery of Henri Coulette's poetry, the first publication of poems by Richard Wollheim, a remarkable interview with the Taiwanese poet Chen Yuhong, a reappraisal of the poems of Austin Clarke, and major new poems by Sasha Dugdale, Stav Poleg, John Fuller and many others. It is an issue of discovery and rediscovery, rich in Anglophone poetry and in translations.

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2021 Special Commendation.Edited by Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe, this is the latest in Carcanet's celebrated introductory anthology series presenting work by two dozen poets writing in English from around the world.

The January-February 2023 issueHoratio Morpurgo revisits Bertrand Russell and Jurassic MarbleLesley Harrison and the whalers' diaries, how a language and culture surviveAnthony Vahni Capildeo on IslandsBasil Bunting's Letters from two perspectives: Don Share and August KleinzahlerCraig Raine being and not being WhitmanAnthony Huen on the Hong Kong MomentNew to PN Review this issue: Kate Hendry, Petra White, Diane Mehta and Philip Armstrongand more...

The September-October 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 celebrating the poetry of Taiwan and the National Museum of Taiwan Literature; Major translations from the poems of the leading German poet Joachim Sartorius, the prose of Alberto Manguel, and introducing the wildly implausible poems of Khan Gazi II Giray; Philip Terry asks 'What is Poetry' and provides provisional answers; Rory Waterman visits Robert Browning in Waco; and Jonathan Hirschfeld remembers Daniel Pearl in stone.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.

The January-February 2024 issue. 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 dark essays on Eastern Europe in 1939, on sentimental ecology, the culture wars, and Byron through selected letters; discovering the radical American poet Steve Malmude with Miles Champion; overhearing the Mexican poet Darío Jaramillo in conversation with God (Richard Gwyn's translations); and new poems by the Pulitzer laureate Carl Phillips.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.

The March-April 2024 issue. 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 a major statement by Russian poet Maria Stepanova on the repair work poetry must do in the contemporary political world; Rod Mengham on the surviving essence of East Germany; Jena Schmidt on Friederike Mayröcker's great poems; Andrew McNeillie revisits Dylan Thomas; and Patrick McGuinness on Colm Tóibín's poems. 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.

The May-June 2024 issue. 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 Gregory Woods on Queerness today; Rod Mengham visits a Lost Europe; Kirsty Gunn considers Risk in Carl Phillips’s poetry; Gabriel Josipovici on the end of stories; Philip Terry finds a hand-written Philip Larkin poem in a Lawrence Durrell book; and Mae Losasso on Bunny Lang. 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.

The July-August 2024 issue. 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 Gwyneth Lewis discussing her forthcoming memoir and considering the vexed issue of motherhopod in her ‘Spiderings’ sequence; Ian Thomson revisits the concluding chapters of his mother’s Second World War in Tallinn, the Baltic; Adrian May confronts Tradition and Traditionalism; and Andrew McNeillie’s re-viewing of Dylan Thomas concludes. 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.

The September-October 2024 issue. 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 Anthony Vahni Capildeo’s first letter from Lima, Peru; Stav Poleg’s new long poem, ‘The Banquet’, explores the vernacular; The late Stanley Moss talking candidly to Neilson MacKay; Horatio Morpurgo on the particulars of Immigration and the Owl and the Nightingale; and Gabriel Josipovici re-enacts the Battle of Maldon. 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.

The November-December 2024 issue.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 the first translation of Dante's Inferno by a Jamaican poet (Lorna Goodison); the introduction of the Afghan poet Mahbouba Ibrahimi in translations by Parwana Fayyaz of the Forward Prize; Kirsty Gunn on key New Zealand writers; John McAuliffe on Heaney as translator and letter writer; and a letter from Madrid by Anthony Vahni Capildeo. 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.

The January-February 2026 issuePNR 287 is an international issue, exploring the importance of archives, libraries and AI in the wide world of poetry, with powerful translations from the Taiwanese and classical Arabic, and a celebration of human connections in space and time.

The May-June 2026 issuePN Review 289 centres on dialogues: between languages (Chinese, Polish, German, medieval Arabic, and English); between poets and editors; between present and passed ages and mind-sets. The magazine is full of discoveries and rediscoveries, with its usual complement of joy, beauty and provocation.

The July-August 2026 issueThe ways in which poetry, ancient and modern, is affected, shaped and mis-shapen by historical and cultural circumstances is explored in this issue, where politics and its consequences are never far away, and yet the physical, cultural and natural worlds keep reviving and sometimes redeeming the present. From Futuna Chapel in New Zealand to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, there are startling continuities; from the English of New Zealand to the of Canada, from the war-torn landscapes of the Ukraine to the reading rooms of the British Library, poets breathe and share a common air that mingles with that of the poets of the past, of Leopardi, of Callimachus...

The September-October 2026 issueThe geographical range of this issue is vast, taking in twelve countries over four continents, all of them concerned with the ways language makes landscape and history live across borders of time and space. And here is Latin speaking in English, and many fantastical encounters, as usual.

Songs of Experience harvests work by a new generation of poets: has there ever before been so original and inexhaustibly varied a cohort of poets writing and publishing in their seventies, eighties and nineties?Here some of our best-loved poets are shown in a new light, presented side by side in all their diversity. Some have published with Carcanet since the 1970s, others are later arrivals or late starters on the list. All of them still write and publish new work. Songs of Experience is a celebration, providing readers with a first opportunity to engage with an unprecedented generation.Several of the defining poets of the past half century are to be found here - Gillian Clarke, Rowan Williams, Mimi Khalvati, Lorna Goodison, Daniel Huws among them - and some whose work will in due course change how our age is read. The writers include prose reflections on late style, fresh starts, life stories, and a changing take on their calling in an age so different from the one that shaped them.

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 Tóíbín 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...