PN Review 245

Overview

The January-February 2019 issue. New poems by Les Murray and Rebecca Watts. Vahni Capildeo on making multivocal performative texts. Michael Powell discusses Drawing in Drag, the first comic book published by Chetham's Library. Sasha Dugdale discusses how we see the world in her essay 'On Vision'. With translations from the Arabic, French, German, and Russian. New to PN Review this issue: Yehunda Amichi, Hal Coase, Nina Iskrenko & Jonathan Catherall. And more...

Author Biography

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.