PN Review 257

The January-February 2021 issue. Editorial considers the British Library's controversial Printed Heritage Provenance Research report and its negative impact on their welcome anti-racism policy. Jason Allen-Paisant considers blackness and landscape. Vahni Capildeo on trees and the poetry of ecology. John Clegg's 'Marianne Moore Buys Some Bananas.' Jonathan E. Hirschfeld sculpts Czeslaw Milosz (illustrated). New poetry by Tara Bergin, Miles Burrows, and Nina Bogin. New to PN Review this issue: Colm Tóibín, Daisy Fried, Alexey Shelvakh, and Camille Ralphs. 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.