This week from the archive: From an Old Songbook by Daniel Huws published in one of the very first PN Review's, PN Review 1, October - December 1977. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome. More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

'Held in this night where all things brim with reality, I find as one the burning lamp, my family safe, snow like soft diamonds, a village caressed by darkness'. From Michael Edwards' 'Poems from Wivenhoe', published in PN Review 284. To read in full, subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'It's Holt's vibrant imagination that makes this a startling and generous book.' Molly Twomey for Poetry Ireland Review on Dane Holt's 'Father's Father's Father'. To read Father's Father's Father: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017468... To read the review: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome. More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

Congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who has won the Laurel Prize with her collection ‘Rhizodont’, on @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. I reviewed Katrina’s book for @pnreview.bsky.social; there’s a snippet here or hey order a copy why don’t you… www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/on-k... TL;DR: “I was grabbed…”

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones! More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

'Let me start again. If a story can have more than one ending, surely it can have more than one beginning. In a poet's case, it is the beginning that changes'. From Mary O'Malley's 'Notes from a Native', published in PN Review 284. To read in full, subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

This week from the archive: read two poems by U.S Dhuga, published in PN Review 219, September - October 2014. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones! More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

'We knowingly manipulate pattern and repetition, metaphor and metonymy, rhythm and timbre, gesture and pitch, to create new meanings or provoke 'shock' recognitions of old ones.' From Lesley Harrison's article 'Do Birds Sing?', published in PN Review 284. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-b...

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones! More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

This week from the archive: Bohemia Lies by the Sea by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Frank Beck and published in PN Review 228, March - April 2016. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones! More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

' I create, but I am never able to express it as perfectly as it is inside me. Each creation is just a step closer..' From Csilla Toldy's 'In Dialogue with Paris Spleen by Baudelaire', published in PN Review 284. To read the article in full, subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

This week from the archive: From A Revolutionary Calendar from Floréal by Zoë Skoulding, published in PN Review 259, May - June 2021. For 10% off Zoë's recent work, A Marginal Sea, use code WLS1025 at checkout on our website.🌔 To read our Substack:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Padraig Regan and Evan Jones! More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

From a good poem that @pnreview.bsky.social resurfaced from 1988: "But eventually there are things that flesh does not forgive; now my skin rises against you, rigid, my body beats you back."

‘The sea that is brown and real around my rock, / in the distance glitters on their faces’ - Kate Bowles, ‘This is It’, from @pnreview.bsky.social 63, September-October 1988

This week from the archive: read three poems by Kate Bowles, published in PN Review 63, September - October 1988. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

'White and pink blossoms infuse the air with a flickering, staccato energy - another kind of sky writing.' From Gregory O'Brien's 'From the Book of Disorderly Days - A Letter from Japan', published in PN Review 284. Subscribe here to read the full article: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

This week from the archive: read three sonnets by C.K. Stead, published in PN Review 267, September - October 2022. pnreview.substack.com/p/three-sonn...

Today’s Featured Poem: “The Returnee” by Marilyn Hacker published by @pnreview.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/the-ret...

'A private library is an autobiography told in the voice of its reader, but a national library is the collective answer to the curse of Babel.' From Alberto Manguel's essay 'The Library as Macrocosm and Microcosm', published in PN Review 284: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/the-...

“A poetry of self-conscious listening, of placing sound carefully. Like the plover, here I am, sitting on this stone, testing out sounds and patterns in order to record how it is to be here in this now.” —Lesley Harrison, “Do Birds Sing?”, in @pnreview.bsky.social www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-b...

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 284, our latest issue. Read the full editorial on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

‘And yet, the fascination with accomplishing that which is proven impossible stubbornly persists in the human imagination’ - from Alberto Manguel’s feature in @pnreview.bsky.social on libraries where the imagination feels at home.

Do Birds Sing? Lesley Harrison’s essay certainly does: @pnreview.bsky.social www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/do-b...

PN Review 284 is here! See below for some highlights… To buy the issue: www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issue

Arctic Cities, a poem by Sinéad Morrissey published in PN Review 283. Read in full here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/arct...

My prose piece on Walter Benjamin in 1920s Moscow and my own time in 1990s Moscow is online and fully accessible (although perhaps not for long) @pnreview.bsky.social www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/benj...

I wrote this as a sort of reckoning with the past, and the various ways we consider recent history as it occurred and occurs to us. I compare Walter Benjamin’s time in Moscow in 1920s and my own in 1990s. Thanks @pnreview.bsky.social: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/benj...

This week from the archive: read 'The Goodbyes' by John Ash, published in PN Review 36, March - April 1984. pnreview.substack.com/p/the-goodby...

From Philip Terry's essay 'Lost Languages', published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/lost...

This week from the archive: read 'Sometimes I consider the names of places' by Kei Miller, published in PN Review 249, September - October 2019. pnreview.substack.com/p/sometimes-...

If I could touch it the light would be almost warm as you following shape close to the shapes you have been as you slept. Brilliant work by Carola Luther, whom I have always admired.

'In reading Rabia and translating her, I learnt to honour the private space where I am free to be a poet.' From Parwana Fayyaz's essay 'In Search of My Silenced Language', published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/in-s...

This week from the archive: read two poems by Carola Luther, published in PN Review 256, November - December 2020. pnreview.substack.com/p/two-poems-...

'Is language a home, an origin, and a mother? Or is it an other, a lover, a stranger you learn to embrace and give in to, as a matter of choice?' From Oksana Maksymchuk's article 'Multifarious Beast', published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/mult...

This week from the archive: read two poems by Oli Hazzard, published in PN Review 200, July - August 2011. pnreview.substack.com/p/two-poems-...

'Translation is a treacherous transaction: there is profit and loss.' From Isobel Williams's article on Callimachus, published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/call... Order your copy or subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issu

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This week from the archive: read Odysseus by Tom Leonard, published in PN Review 179, January - February 2008. pnreview.substack.com/p/odysseus-b...

From 'The Myth of the Native Language', an essay by Gabriel Josipovici published in PN Review 283. Read it for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/the-...

Stav Poleg writes such beautiful and vulnerable prose. There were many highlights in @pnreview.bsky.social 283 but I’ve returned to Stav’s piece to read and admire: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/runn...

This week from the archive: read Rubaiyat by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah, published in PN Review 174, March - April 2007. pnreview.substack.com/p/rubaiyat-b...

From thrums by Thomas A. Clark, published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/ifro... Order your copy or subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issu

This week from the archive: read Arctic Cities by Sinéad Morrissey, published in PN Review 283, May - June 2025. pnreview.substack.com/p/arctic-cit...

I enjoyed this essay! It’s nae only fur Scots. It’s witty. And for me it’s a reminder that half the pleasure in poetry lies in how the lines sound. #poetry

The new issue of Poetry Nation Review is here. Published in the UK but featuring writers from around the world, it's a good way for North Americans to learn about the wider world of English-language poetry.