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This week's Substack features Leeanne Quinn's poem 'Smoke'. Read here: tinyurl.com/y8rz4dwf
'Competence and bungling are curiously blended in this catalogue of those who were to expect trouble.' From Horatio Morpurgo's feature 'Stefan Zweig and the Mad King', from PN Review 289. Read for free: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/stef... Subscribe to PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
'It’s been exciting to put together issues full of things we love, by people we admire – new or established – and to find that there is a readership for these things.' From Declan Ryan's conversation with Rory Waterman, featured in PN Review 289. Read more on our Substack: tinyurl.com/4v7jdad6
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Last week's blog featuring poems by Jeffrey Wainwright is available to read on our Substack: pnreview.substack.com/p/drawing-le...
'When she lifted her hair, sparks like metallic finches flocked to my face then flew to light the dark terrace of a pine.' From Anthony Lawrence's poem 'Guest and Host', from PN Review 288, our latest edition. Subscribe for more PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
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'As I leave the office I glance back at the Round Reading Room's double doors where the word OUT seems particularly stark, particularly pale.' From Richard Price's feature 'The Accidental Curator', published in PN Review 287. Subscribe for more: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
'Until my mother Leila began her last twenty or so years of dying, I had thought of life as linear.' From Anthony Vahni-Capildeo's report 'On Balance', as seen in PN Review 287. Subscribe for more PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
'Between transparent slabs my flesh, unsiliconed blood and tissue squeezed to three centimetres.' From Chen Yuhong's poem 'Mammogram', frrom PN Review 287, out latest edition. Subscribe for more PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
'My voice changes depending on the language I speak, and I have often thought that I'm a different person when I speak German, Spanish or English.' From Alberto Manguel's feature 'With the Lobsters into Sea', from the latest PN Review 287. Read for free: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/with...
'These qualities - of being both, of the known and the unknown, the familiar and also the strange... are at the centre of a good deal of what I love in literary experience.' From Kirsty Gunn's 'To travel both and be one traveller', published in PNR 287. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/to-t...
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And our reviews: Sunil Iyengar on William H. Pritchard, Mike Freeman on Terry Eagleton, Nóra Blascsók on Petr Hruška, Theophilus Kwek on Sarah Howe, Rowland Bagnall on Emily Skillings, and Yogesh Patel on Hayim Nahman Bialik.
Kirsty Gunn discussing the lives and work of Muriel Spark and Katherine Mansfield, which can be read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/.../to-trave... Ricardo Nirenberg considering the Orphic myth, and Tony Roberts on William F. Buckley Jr.
Featuring: Alberto Manguel's John Rylands Lecture, which you can read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/.../with-the... Dane Holt on Tony Harrison, Richard Price from The Accidental Curator, Philip Terry asking What Is Poetry?,
Reports from: Anthony Vahni Capildeo, John Gallas, J. Kates, and Sam Adams.
Poetry by: Chen Yuhong, Abū Nuwās, Yitzhak HaGorni, Raymond Quenau, Ben Egerton, Kevin Cormack, Roger Garfitt, Ian Pople, Marsha Pomerantz, and Michael Symmons Roberts.
From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 287, our latest issue. Read the full editorial on our PN Review Substack:🔗 open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
'Tonight my brother's home is dark. The fires are out, Nowhere to lie down. I shall stop crying soon, I promise.' From Rowan Williams' feature 'Heledd 2025', published in PN Review 286. Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/hele...
'I was amused and humiliated by his levity loaded with the gravity of American racism. Should I laugh or cry? Or both?' From Robert Bensen's article 'The Grave Levity of Derek Walcott', published in PN Review 286, our most recent edition. Subscribe to PN Review here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
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'sewn in tiny, neat stitches to the backing reinforces the fraying border to keep it steadfast as it fails and tears' From Jane Duran's poem 'Palestinian embroidery', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe for more PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
'It is clear that the specific incident of Adam's death is not the beginning or the end of Adam in Odubanjo's eyes.' From Aisha Allinson's review of Gboyega Odubanjo's 'Adam', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review to read the rest: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe