PN Review 237

Featuring the poem "And death demands a labor" by Sumita Chakraborty, shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The September-October 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights: Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage; New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba; Cultural news from South Korea; PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets; New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chang; Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.

Luke Allan 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, will be published by MIEL in 2015. 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.