PN Review 259

The May-June 2021 issue. Major new sequence of poems by Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison. Opening essay in new eco-essay series by Brian Morton, about living rough in the remote Hebrides. Conversation with great New Zealand poet Bill Manhire. Philip Terry's huge supplement on experimental poetry, OuLiPo, with first contributions from a huge range of European, American, and other poets. New to PN Review this issue: Ariane Dreyfus, Naush Sabah, Devin Johnston, and Silis MacLeod. 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. 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.