PN Review 283

The March-April 2025 issue.

Between Language is a special issue of PN Review. It grasps a creative nettle: ‘ Many of us as writers and readers are differently, sometimes conflictedly, alive in a variety of languages. Alive even in dead languages, one might say, proving those languages anything but mortal.’

We invited poets, novelists, critics, philosophers and translators to explore the different ways in which languages communicate over time and between one another; what some can and others cannot express; how inferences (irony, for example) belonging to a class or a culture constrain expression. The political arguments, creative and formal challenges that emerge in these pages will refocus our ways of hearing and reading our languages, our individual and collective consciousness, how we can be cancelled or silenced and then find our way around silencing.

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. 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.

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