PN Review

Archived since Poetry Nation No. 1
289 issues
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Welcome to PN Review, one of the outstanding literary magazines of our time.

Keep up with the many worlds of poetry in this independent and always stimulating journal. For four decades PN Review has been a place to discover new poems in English and in translation as well as interviews, news, essays, reviews and reports from around the world. Subscribers can explore the uniquely rich digital archive.

Latest issue
The March-April 2025 issue

PN Review 282 is about renewal, finding and re-finding resources – in translation, in the hymn tradition, in the classics; and it is about the ways literature at large and poetry in particular come to terms with historical events and crises in the present world. It also rehears and retells our formative years, discovering how they prefigure and are corrected by the present.

Featured article 1
Sinéad Morrissey 'The Lightbox'

Featured article 2
Rod Mengham 'Cold War Hot Air'

Featured article 3
Gregory Woods 'On Queer Poetry...'

Also in this issue
Sergey Zavyalov 'Horatian Paraphrases' translated by J. Kates 
Anthony V. Capildeo 'Skeletons in the Closet'
Sasha Dugdale 'On learning that Russian mothers buy their soldier sons lucky belts'
James Womack 'The Philosophy of Translation'
Andrew Hadfield 'Readings of Milton'

Subjects: Literature, Poetry

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  • First Issue: Poetry Nation No. 1
  • Latest Issue: March - April 2025
  • Issue Count: 289
  • Published: Bi-monthly
  • ISSN: 2514-4375

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