PN Review 276 - Michael Schmidt - Bog

The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes a major statement by Russian poet Maria Stepanova on the repair work poetry must do in the contemporary political world; Rod Mengham on the surviving essence of East Germany; Jena Schmidt on Friederike Mayrö cker's great poems; Andrew McNeillie revisits Dylan Thomas; and Patrick McGuinness on Colm Tó ibí n's poems. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.