'I was amused and humiliated by his levity loaded with the gravity of American racism. Should I laugh or cry? Or both?' From Robert Bensen's article 'The Grave Levity of Derek Walcott', published in PN Review 286, our most recent edition. Subscribe to PN Review here: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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'sewn in tiny, neat stitches to the backing reinforces the fraying border to keep it steadfast as it fails and tears' From Jane Duran's poem 'Palestinian embroidery', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe for more PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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'It is clear that the specific incident of Adam's death is not the beginning or the end of Adam in Odubanjo's eyes.' From Aisha Allinson's review of Gboyega Odubanjo's 'Adam', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review to read the rest: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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This week's PN Review Substack is an excerpt from Robert Bensen's article 'The Grave Levity of Derek Walcott', published in our most recent edition PN Review 286, November - December 2025. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

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'Gabriel Josipovici is one of the leading writers and critics of his generation. He has been astonishingly prolific.' From 'Gabriel Josipovici at Eighty-Five' by David Herman, published in PN Review 286, our latest edition.⭐ Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/gabr...

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This week's PN Review: From the Archive features Two Poems by John F. Deane, published in PN Review 71, January - February 1990. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'The end of the year, a dream within a dream; a time to pause, then try to go on giving.' From Rachel Hadas' poem 'As If for Life', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review for more: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 286, our latest issue. Read the full editorial on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'What is... the first and least remarkable thing about this story - is the extent to which Graeme Richardson buries the hatchet into the work.' From @rorywaterman.bsky.social's report 'Remarkable Coincidences', published in PN Review 286. Read for free: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...

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This week from the archive: 'A Letter to the Dead (A lost poem in memory of Dylan Thomas)' by Lynette Roberts, published in PN Review 220, November - December 2014. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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Early start interpreting at the eye hospital. Reading Ned Denny’s envigorating versions in @pnreview.bsky.social while two old chaps discuss how ‘brown bread turns you out nicely. Surprisingly quickly actually.’

This week from the archive: an excerpt from Natalia Ginzburg's article 'Portrait of a Friend' published in PN Review 40, November - December 1984. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

If I can just make this one thing not die, the clappers in the loft will stop their murders.' From Joseph Minden's poem 'Alfriston Clergy House', published in PN Review 285, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review for more: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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This week from the archive: Two Poems by Wisława Szymborska, translated by John & Bogdana Carpenter and published in PN Review 26, July - August 1982. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

'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

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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

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'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.

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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

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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...

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'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...