PN Review 240

The March-April 2018 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: winners and commendations from the PN Review Prize; a celebration of Peter Scupham, poet, humourist, and long-time contributor, at 85 years old; poet, translator, and MPT editor Sasha Dugdale in conversation; Vahni Capildeo on sexual violence; more on the controversy surrounding Rebecca Watts’s essay in PNR 239 about the Twitter poets; new poems in English and translation by Marilyn Hacker, Samira Negrouche, Angela Leighton, Ned Denny, and others.

Luke Allan 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. He is the author of minimum soft exchange. 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, about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press.