'Waves foam and pitch, cross-hatched with the annual flickering of shearwaters.' From 'Writings for Brear' by Horatio Morpurgo, published in PN Review 285.⭐ Read for free: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ... Subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com. Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...

This week's Substack: an excerpt from Francesca Brooks' article 'A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts', published in our recent PN Review 285, September - October 2025. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

Lovely to receive this picture from PN Review contributor John R. Lee, with the caption: 'PNR 285 in coffee shop, Saint Lucia, bagel and lemon shandy....come on down...' Where do you read your PNR?

'There was something mysterious and compelling about this piece of writing's very existence. ' Francesca Brooks' article on following in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts. From PN Review 285, our latest edition. To read more, subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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This week from the archive: an excerpt from Thomas A Clark's interview with Alice Tarbuck, published in PN Review 229, May - June 2016. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'All our own fires too, will someday go out.' From Stephanie Burt's poem 'Eclipse' published in PN Review 285, our latest edition. Subscribe to read more:⬇️ www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

This week from the archive: an excerpt from Evan Jones' article 'We need to talk about Canada' published in PN Review 211, May - June 2013. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'His unique blend of body horror, childish babble and pastoral utopia, however, remains as striking today as ever.' Fred Warren reviewing Nikolai Zabolotsky in PNR 285, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review to read the rest of his review, and other features: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

This week from the archive: an excerpt from Mimi Khalvati's interview with Vicky Bertram, published in PN Review 130, November - December 1999. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'What was coming of age in the fifties really like? No story is more repeatedly misconstrued.' From Marjorie Perloff's 'My 1950s', published in PN Review 285. Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/my-1... Subscribe today: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

In honour of the late Tony Harrison, his poem 'A Kumquat for John Keats' is featured this week on our Substack. The poem was originally published in PN Review 21, November - December 1981. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

'Are male same-sex abusers also musers on the exchange they 'knew to be consensual?' From 'Unlovely, but', one of the poems written by Carol Rumens for our most recent PN Review. Subscribe to read the rest of her poems, alongside other reports, features and reviews: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

A photo of me reading from ‘Men of the Same Name’ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.

Only a few hours left of our flash sale! To celebrate @poetrydayuk.bsky.social we're offering 25% off our entire website - use the code CARCNPD25 for 25% off and free UK P&P at the website checkout.🎉 Shop here: www.carcanet.co.uk/

This week's Substack: an excerpt from Sinéad Morrisey's article 'God's Day', published in our most recent edition PN Review 285, September - October 2025. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

Have you shopped our flash sale yet? To celebrate @poetrydayuk.bsky.social we're offering 25% off our entire website - use the code CARCNPD25 for 25% off and free UK P&P at the website checkout.🎉 Shop here: www.carcanet.co.uk/

Happy @poetrydayuk.bsky.social 🎉 To celebrate, we're offering 25% off our entire website! Use the code CARCNPD25 for 25% off and free UK P&P at the website checkout. Shop here: www.carcanet.co.uk/

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 285, our latest issue. Read the full editorial on our Substack: 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...

'We know this view. It is familiar, and its unchanging parts have become anchors for our mind's home.' From Fawzia Muradali Kane's recent report, published in PN Review 285. Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/on-j... Subscribe here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

PN Review 285 is here! See below for some highlights… To buy the issue: www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issue

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...

Just one week left until PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025! Join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm - the event is free and everyone is welcome. More info and free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

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...