PN Review

04/07/2024

'Dark rabbit of the arbors
and warrens of grammar,
I tell you in a language soft as grapes,
duly humbled by your tremor of a smile...'

On the Substack today, ‘Dark Rabbit’ and Other Poems by Betsy Rosenberg from PN Review 219:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/dark-rabbit-and-other-poems-by-betsy?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

27/06/2024

'There is something of Emily Dickinson in the New England air of her poetry...'

This week on the Substack from PN Review 102, 1995, 'Thriving on the Peripheries' by James Keery on The Fourth Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry.

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20/06/2024

'Bed. Sheets without sleep, and the first birds.
Dawn, at the pace of a yacht.'

On the Substack this week, Two Poems by Simon Armitage from PN Review 141:

https://open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/two-poems-by-simon-armitage?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

13/06/2024

'The women planted elm trees
packing down loose dirt
with their hands
And the children hung garlands...'

On the Substack this week, Sway by Yu Jin Ko from PN Review 44 (1985):

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/sway-by-yu-jin-ko?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

06/06/2024

'Sacred space
– like a bedroom –
entered by few.'

On the Substack this week, approaching the second anniversary of Paula Rego's death, 'Paula Rego’s Studio and her ‘Dollies’' by Anthony Rudolf, from PN Review 267.

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/paula-regos-studio-and-her-dollies?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

30/05/2024

'Sometimes editors can serve the whirligig of time, to the benefit of readers for whom poetry is never a settled canon. The past, even the recent past, is at least as rich in resource & surprise as the present.'

On the Substack this week read Michael Schmidt's Editorial from PN Review 277:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/pn-review-277-editorial?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

29/05/2024

PN Review 277 is here!

Here's your first peek inside the new issue of 'probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world'--John Ashbery

Some selections for you pictured.

The issue includes poems, features, reviews & comment, from Joey Connelly, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Terry, Anthony Vahni Capildeo and many more!

You can read the full list of subscribers over on our website and pick up your copy or subscribe to this now legendary magazine via the link below.

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23/05/2024

'Ruins are traces. Discourse on the rainbow:
Optics rewritten as a science not
Of light rays nor of images, but shadows.'

On the Substack this week read Three Poems by Emily Grosholz from PN Review 235:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/three-poems-by-emily-grosholz?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

16/05/2024

'I thought I would write about the great help Eavan Boland gives me, a gay Singapore poet, in resisting & re-­envisioning a patriarchal & colonial literary heritage.'

On the Substack this week: The Other Eavan Boland by Jee Leong Koh from PN Review 220:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/the-other-eavan-boland-by-jee-leong?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

09/05/2024

'Dancing down O'Connell Street: 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3.
I look happy there — don't I?'

On the Substack this week read Two Poems by Jeremy Over from PN Review 121:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/two-poems-by-jeremy-over?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1303672&post_id=144399203&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wu2sl&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

02/05/2024

'God gave the earth-gods
adamantine ignorance.

They think themselves
the spontaneous shimmering of fact -
brilliant wings with no history
of cramped egg or stifling cocoon.'

On the Substack this week read three poems by Denise Levertov from PN Review 46: https://pnreview.substack.com/p/three-poems-by-denise-levertov?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

25/04/2024

"Monsoon music drowned the light of day.
Our Lakeside School was surrounded by black waters.
Water-hyacinth, rice-grass and lotus covered the lake."

On the Substack this week read Two Poems by Mir Mahfuz Ali from PN Review 192:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/two-poems-by-mir-mahfuz-ali?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

22/04/2024

'Changing our perspective of Earth has changed our relationship to it. As the planet has moved in our imagination from being impossibly large to curiously and cutely ‘smol’; as the planet has been harmed and irreversibly damaged by us, she no longer seems to fill the role of Mother Earth.The Earth of today is needy, demanding. The Earth of today wants to be mothered.'

In honour of Earth Day we've made Isabel Galleymore's essay 'Baby Earth Environmentalism' from PNR 275 open access! Read it here via Exact Editions:

Keep up with the many worlds of poetry in this independent and always stimulating journal. For four decades PN Review has been a place to discover new poems in English and in translation as well as interviews, news, essays, reviews and reports from around the world.

18/04/2024

'To be air or a black streak on air, or be silt.
Be any watery sheen threading brackish, or vein
nets tracked as patted under their skin glaze, running all ways.'

On the Substack this week read Two Poems by Denise Riley from PN Review 98:

https://pnreview.substack.com/p/two-poems-by-denise-riley?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

15/04/2024

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12/04/2024

'probably the most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery

Subscribers can explore John Ashbery in our archives.

Available to read for all is this interview taken from PN Review 46 (page one pictured):

https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5781

11/04/2024

'I HAVE CUT BAMBOO:
for you, my son.
I have lived.'

On the Substack this week read 'Poems (translated by Michael Hamburger) by Paul Celan' from PN Review 43:

https://open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/poems-by-paul-celan?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

10/04/2024

'To lyricize that period, he’d frieze
sweet images beyond reprise:
a thrush to sing on lad’s head at the trees'

'Tarkovsky's Mirror' by John Aberdein in our most recent issue of PN Review, subscribers can read two more by him here:

https://www.pnreview.co.uk/current

04/04/2024

'Troubling gestures and postures have been on display recently, urgent-seeming causes ... that insist on speaking but dare not quite speak their name.'

On the Substack this week read Michael Schmidt's editorial from our latest issue, PN Review 276

https://open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/pn-review-276-editorial?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/04/2024

PN Review 276 is here and so's your first look inside!

As always, the magazine is packed full of poems, features, reports, reviews and more - here are a few choice cuts from this latest issue, which is also available to explore on our website. You can have the best poetry voices from the English-speaking world delivered straight to your door: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/

28/03/2024

'Baudelaire has meant a tremendous amount to me over the years as somebody to be learned from - as much as anybody apart from Shakespeare...'

On the Substack this week 'An Interview with Thom Gunn by Jim Powell' from PN Review 70.

https://open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/an-interview-with-thom-gunn-by-jim?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

21/03/2024

'Between dark and dusk
we walk to the brink of the year,
an iron-red line on cinereous clay.'

On the Substack this week read Rebecca Hurst's 'Mapping the Woods' taken from PN Review 244:

https://open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/mapping-the-woods-by-rebecca-hurst?r=pgoc1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/03/2024

'What makes politically engaged poetry unique, remaining poetry beyond its politics?'

Read 'June Jordan 1936-2002' by Marilyn Hacker, taken from PN Review 146:

PN Review 146, September - October 2002

29/02/2024

One of five poems by Betsy Rosenberg in the current issue of PN Review - subscribers can read the rest here: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=11666

27/02/2024

One of two poems by Dilys Rose, taken from PN Review 275.

22/02/2024

'Audaxviator' by Jane Houston, one of four poems in the current issue of PN Review!

Subscribers can read the rest here: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=11663