PN Review 256

The November-December 2020 issue. Vahni Capildeo’s Letter from Quarantine and Andrew Fitzsimons’ poetry from ‘Basho in Lockdown.’ Essays by David Rosenberg and Ricardo Nirnberg on the effect and implications of Lockdown for poetry, literature, and the human imagination. Michael Freeman’s reflections on Boethius writing his great philosophical poem ‘The Consolation of Philosophy’ while in “lockdown” in ancient times. New poetry by Andrew Mears, Victoria Kennefick, Wong May, and Maryam Hessavi. New to PN Review this issue: Andrew Fitzsimons, Jennifer Wong, and Nilton Santiago. And more...

John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002), which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. 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. 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.