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For thirty years, PNR has been the premier British poetry journal. Its coverage is broad and generous: from John Ashbery to new young English poets, from essays on Continental poetics and fiction to reviews of neglected poets both living and dead. At a time when poetry is largely neglected, PNR continues to make an eloquent case for its centrality to our culture.

Marjorie Perloff

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PN Review 169 Where does PN Review take me? In space? In cyberspace?
Poésie sans frontières: PN Review, one of the world's leading literary journals, passionately committed to poetry, offers a unique mix of international cultural news, views, incisive comment and debate. At the heart of the enterprise is poetry in English and translation by some of the best practitioners at work today, and poetic recoveries from the recent and remote past. PNR has been edited since it began as Poetry Nation in 1972 by Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL.

PNR, in its sturdy A4 perfect bound paperback format, is published six times a year. Each issue includes an editorial, letters, reports, essays, interviews, features, poems, translations and book reviews. The on line version is also freely available to subscribers.

What plans for the future? What do I get as a subscriber?

www.pnreview.co.uk will ultimately contain the more than thirty years of the issues of PN Review, each new issue being added a few weeks after paper publication. The site includes the first six issues of Poetry Nation (1972-6) and every issue of PNR from 117 (1996).

We currently offer free membership of www.pnreview.co.uk to all subscribers. The benefit of having the issues online is enormous. Hundreds of poems, essays and reviews are available to browse, search or research. You can choose what you want to see and how you want to see it. The following categories are available on the site:

Issues	Here you can browse the site on a traditional issue by issue basis. Selecting this will take you to a list of all the available issues. Each entry in the list is a link to the table of contents for that issue, laid out in exactly the same format as the magazine. Each entry in the table of contents is a link to the relevant item.
Reports	This function selects all of the reports from all of the available issues. These are sorted alphabetically both by subject and by author.
Poems	This function selects all of the poems from all of the available issues. These are sorted alphabetically by author.
Articles	This function selects all of the articles from all of the available issues. These are sorted alphabetically both by subject and by author. Please note that although interviews are included within the Articles section of the magazine, they are accessed separately on the site. This gives a much higher degree of flexibility.
Interviews	This function selects all of the interviews from all of the available issues. These are sorted alphabetically both by interviewee and by interviewer.
Reviews	This function selects all of the reviews from all of the available issues. These are sorted alphabetically both by reviewee and by reviewer.
Search	Finally, if none of the above functions gives you the flexibility you need, our powerful search engine will allow you to search specific sections, or the entire site for exactly the information you want.

To suggest the wealth of www.pnreview.co.uk we features recent content from a variety of issues. The items shown are available to view. Use the "Back" button on your browser to return to the table of contents when you finish reading an item. Then click the Join button and enjoy the full archive!

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Below we list material from recent issues of PN Review. Click on the link to open it in your browser window or right-click and select 'Save As' to save it to your computer to read later. If you do not have a copy of Acrobat Reader, the software required to open these files, you can download it here.

Editorials Editorial from Issue 157 Editorial from Issue 163 Editorial from Issue 169

Reports Peter Davidson - A letter from Copenhagen Marius Kociejowski - The Pigeon Wars of Damascus Neil Powell - Bill and Bird

Poems Sinéad Morrissey - China Robert Minhinnick - The Castaway 'A Compound March' - John Peck

Articles Gabriel Josipovici - Singing a New Song Marjorie Perloff - Anna Akhmatova In Translation Carlos Fuentes - In Praise of the Novel

Interviews Heather Beck in Conversation with Jeremy Treglown Jody Allen Randolph in Conversation with Michael Longley

Reviews Alison Brackenbury - Four Corners of Earth Grevel Lindop - Purity Of Intent

Special Features Eavan Boland - Six Poets David Gervais - Mythology without Myth: The Paintings of Timothy Hyman David C. Ward - The Green Man: Walt Whitman and the Civil War

PN Review 168 Now click the Join button and enjoy the full archive and a new issue of PN Review every two months!