PN Review 248

The July-August 2019 issue. Essay on readership by renowned French critic and literary theorist Hélène Cixoux; Sarah Rothenberg delivers an intimate Musical Tribute to John Ashbery; Mícheál McCann in conversation with American poet and memoirist Mark Doty; Major sequence of poems by leading South African poet Carola Luther; A meditation on Adrienne Rich’s radical feminist poem ‘Diving into the Wreck’ by Vahni Capildeo; Featuring poems translated from the Spanish and Czech; New to PN Review this issue: Michael Prior, Nell Prince, Stav Poleg and Lynne Hjelmgaard; and more...

Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy and production editor of PN Review. He is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Press and of the magazine Egress) and a poet contributor to New Poetries VII. 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.