Overview

The January-February 2025 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 Sujata Bhatt’s stories of a Gujarat childhood; Anthony Vahni Capildeo on ‘Water Poetics’; Dan Burt's memoir of the late Frank Auerbach; new poems by Tara Bergin, Laura Scott, Evan Jones, Marilyn Hacker, and Gregory Woods; and other essays, poems and reviews.  Our vast archive now includes over 280 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.

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'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

Author Information

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. John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review. He is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII.

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