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PN Review 232

Volume 43 Number 2 November - December 2016 Out of Stock
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Inside Front Cover

Pictures from a Library Stella Halkyard
Editorial
News & Notes
Letters

Poems

Drawing Lessons Jeffrey Wainwright
The Cabin Boy’ & Other Poems Gabriella Attems
Later Emperors Evan Jones
‘The Starfish’ & Other Poems Isabel Galleymore
Two Poems Mary Noonan
Biographia Literaria David Wheatley
Two Poems Tara Bergin
Two Poems Caroline Bird
‘The People on the Lawn’ & Other Poems Gerry McGrath
‘The Armchairs’ & Other Poems Vidyan Ravinthiran
Sanctuary Sequence Linda Anderson
Why? Joey Connolly
Apple Quartet Lisa Kelly
‘Caprice for Violin’ & Other Poems Jodie Hollander
Finding Dad Adam Feinstein
‘Who’s She’ & Other Poems Ned Denny
‘That crack...’ & Other Poems Gina Wilson

Reports

Not to Speak a Form of Speaking Vahni Capildeo
Sir Geoffrey Hill Rowan Williams
Letter from Wales Sam Adams
From the Journals R.F. Langley
Letter from the Patent Office P.C. Evans
Caroline West’s ‘Chesil Bank Fall’ Tom Lowenstein
An Unforgettable Series of Journeys on the Glasgow Underground Frank Kuppner
Reading Wordsworth: Two poems from Lyrical Ballads Thomas Kinsella

Features

Again Like a Dream: William Empson’s The Face of the Buddha Mark Thompson
The Book That Ate Itself: Travels in Surrealist New Zealand & Some Remarks on Surrealist Poetry in Britain Gregory O'Brien
Interrogating Shugborough Grevel Lindop
Bruno & the ‘Bonnefidèlien’ (i.m. Yves Bonnefoy) Chris Miller

Reviews

on Nikki Skillman Nicolas Tredell
on Helen Thaventhiran Mark Thompson
on Nicholas Barker Grant Shipcott
on The Poems of T. S. Eliot Matthew Creasy
on Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Lars Gustafsson Ross Cogan
on Jamie McKendrick and Derek Mahon David Spittle
on Seán Street Kevin J. Gardner
on Peter Makin Timothy Harris
on Sean Ashton Nicolas Tredell
on Ben Lerner David C. Ward
Twelve Pamphlets Alison Brackenbury

Inside Back Cover

From Chetham’s Library Michael Powell

Cover: Alec Finlay, A Variety of Cultures: An Orchard of Apples & Plums, Jupiter Artland, 2016. Oak ladders for an orchard of native apples and plums. The ladders anticipate the eventual height of the pruned canopies, and a time when visitors will be able to climb amid the fruit and blossom. Photograph: Ruth Clark.
An accompanying book is available from Jupiter Artland.

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