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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 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.

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 May-June 2021 issue; Major new sequence of poems by Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison; Opening essay in new eco-essay series by Brian Morton, about living rough in the remote Hebrides; Conversation with great New Zealand poet Bill Manhire; Philip Terry's huge supplement on experimental poetry, OuLiPo, with first contributions from a huge range of European, American and other poets; New to PN Review this issue: Ariane Dreyfus, Naush Sabah, Devin Johnston and Silis MacLeod; 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 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...