PN Review
Number 242
The July-August 2018 issue
Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop
Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess
John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land
Vahni Capildeo picks up Kei Miller's "hot potato" from the previous issue
New poems by Les Murray
New poems and translations from Israel, Korea, Spain and Holland
and more...
Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop
Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess
John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land
Vahni Capildeo picks up Kei Miller's "hot potato" from the previous issue
New poems by Les Murray
New poems and translations from Israel, Korea, Spain and Holland
and more...
About the author
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.