The January-February 2017 edition of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.
John Fuller at 80, a celebration, with contributions from Alan Hollinghurst, Jonathan Keates, Andrew Motion, Jane Griffiths, Adam Thorpe and others
Michael Hersch: PN Review composer in residence
Venus Khoury-Ghata: The Mothers and the Mediterranean (translated by Marilyn Hacker)
Diana Bridge: J.H. Prynne in China
Stephen Procter: Xi Chuan and the Contradictory Aesthetics of Revolution
Edwin Morgan: Translator's Notebook
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.