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PN Review (originally Poetry Nation) is widely regarded as a magazine in which things happen: poetic innovation and invention are celebrated, literary and political clashes occur, imagination and critical intelligence are tested, teased and rewarded.
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This website features many issues of PN Review, and more are added season by season. Much of this remarkable, evolving record of modern poetry is available electronically. Readers can view the contents on an issue by issue basis; they can also view any of the sub-sections containing articles, reports, interviews and reviews sorted either by subject or by author. The site includes a powerful search engine which will find any and all instances of a reader's search criteria, trawling the whole site or a specified sub-section. Also, the site contains poems from all of the available issues. This is an essential research and reference tool for teachers, students and lovers of poetry. It is also a convenient way of tracing the development of poetry over recent decades.
'PN Review will be a monument to the moment when [...] England sought a redefinition of itself through the recovery of its autonomous cultural history, and sought to re-make the nation according to the programmes of its unacknowledged legislators.' Cairns Craig Times Literary Supplement
For those who are not yet familiar with PNR, we provide a free tour of the site.
'...PN Review is the best poetry magazine that I know: it is interested in poetry in no glib way, it publishes good poems, and it keeps up to date in reviewing new books.' Thom Gunn
One critic, marking PNR 's thirtieth anniversary, described its approach as poésie sans frontiers, a commitment to the wide world of poetry. For more than three decades PNR has been an arena in which uniquely independent voices from Europe and further afield, present and past, have sounded, and in which serious engagements have occurred.
A journal in the tradition of The Calendar of Modern Letters, Criterion and Scrutiny, PNR combines discovery and appraisal of new writing with reappraisals, celebrations and advocacies, and it has published a number of important special issues, the first being the Crisis for Cranmer and King James on the Bible and Prayer Book controversy and its cultural consequences. Another issue concentrated on the crisis in the Humanities in the face of the development of literary and cultural theory, attempting to open up a dialogue between opposing camps. The 100th issue was devoted to A Calendar of Modern Poetry, a unique anthology of the poetry of last century.
From its inception, PNR has been dedicated to three principles.
1. English poetry is a continuum in time and the practice as well as the reading of poetry benefit from a broad knowledge and understanding of the development of the art and craft.
2. English poetry is poetry in English. Nationalisms, the insistence on cultural separateness and division, impoverish poetry quite as much as colonial impositions do: PN Review is poésie sans frontières, with an Anglo-Commonwealth and Anglo-American bias, and a strong commitment to poetry in translation, past and present.
3. Anglo-American and European Modernisms and their legacies are to be valued and taken to heart.
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Committed to modernism and its aftermaths, PNR sets vital, alternative agendas for modern poetry
PN Review champions the work of the New York School (John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and others); of the Antipodeans (Les Murray, Judith Wright and Bill Manhire among others); it stands up for the experimental and keeps a weather eye on the poetries of Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.
Unique in range, it is also a magazine of discovery. Andrew Motion, Blake Morrison, Sophie Hannah, Sujata Bhatt, Sinead Morrissey and Jane Yeh are among those published early on in PNR. It is also a journal of re-discovery. W.S. Graham, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Laura Riding and many others have featured.
'OK here I write again enclosing this copy of "Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons" which is a bit worn. I have taken it from the script. [...] Like you I am broke and the money soon would help me.' W.S. Graham
Poems are accompanied by interviews (Genet, Gunn, Isherwood, Paz, Sciascia), essays, reviews, and reports on issues from around the world.
In the TLS Marilyn Butler called PNR, 'The most important current journal concerned with poetry...' George Steiner described it as 'the most incisive voice of a vision of poetry and the arts as central to national life'.
PNR Supplements
have been devoted to the work of John Ashbery, George Barker, Donald Davie, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thom Gunn, F.T. Prince, Stephen Raw, I.A. Richards, Laura Riding, Edgell Rickword, C.H. Sisson, Adrian Stokes, Charles Tomlinson and Sylvia Townsend Warner.
PNR interviews include
Aharon Appelfeld -- John Ashbery -- George Barker -- Lennox Berkeley -- Sujata Bhatt -- Eavan Boland -- Alison Brackenbury -- Christine Brooke-Rose -- Brian Cox -- Donald Davie -- Elaine Feinstein -- Mavis Gallant -- Jean Genet -- Michael Hamburger -- Brian Jones -- Mimi Khalvati -- David Kinloch -- Michael Longley -- James Michie -- Edwin Morgan -- Les Murray -- Norman MacCaig -- Karen Press -- Kathleen Raine -- Edgell Rickword -- Evelyn Schlag -- C.H. Sisson -- Raymond Tallis -- Jeremy Treglown -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Edmund White -- Mary-Kay Wilmers -- Charles Wright
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