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This article is taken from PN Review 271, Volume 49 Number 5, May - June 2023.

Crisis for Cranmer Lorna Goodison
Issue # 13 of PNR, titled ‘Crisis For Cranmer and King James’ and dedicated to the Book of Common Prayer, is one that Ted and I often refer to as an example of publication in service to humanity. That is true of almost every issue of PNR.

There is no other magazine quite like it for its determination to illuminate whatsoever things are pure and lovely, and to challenge both the comfortable and the contrary in the world of words. Thank you, Michael Schmidt, for the presence of PNR in the world lo these fifty years.

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