PN Review 243

The September-October 2018 issue, featuring the last published poems of the late Matthew Sweeney; a translation of one of the most famous Ethiopian oral poems; John Ash’s first published poem in over a decade; new poems by Sophie Hannah, Claudine Toutoungi and Drew Milne; essay by Vahni Capildeo: ‘Earwormed by a Keynote, with Added Ghosts’; with translations from the Arabic, Ethiopian, German, Greek, Indian and Spanish; new to PN Review this issue: Clare Jones, Bedilu Wakjira, Sam Trainor and Susan de Sola and more...

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.