N.S. Thompson

N.S. Thompson is a poet, critic and translator. He has worked as a gardener and museum curator in Italy and an academic and creative writing tutor in Oxford. His latest pamphlets are After War (New Walk) and Ghost Hands (Melos Press).

N.S. Thompson's work featured in PN Review comprises three reports, one contribution of poetry, eight articles, and nine reviews, over a period of 43 years. Also available is one translation by N.S. Thompson.

Further Reading

Report in PN Review 23 (1982) A Note from Florence
Report in PN Review 24 (1982) Letter from Florence
Report in PN Review 28 (1982) Letter from Florence
Poetry in PN Review 24 (1982) The Questions of Boeotia
Article in PN Review 151 (2003) Form and Function
Article in PN Review 152 (2003) Form and Function (II): Form and Technique
Article in PN Review 153 (2003) Form and Function (III): Form and Metaphysics
Article in PN Review 154 (2003) Form and Function IV: Form and Audience
Article in PN Review 197 (2011) Donald Justice: The Poetry of Departures
Article in PN Review 246 (2019) Liking A.E. Stallings

Article in PN Review 250 (2019) on the Prose Poem
Article in PN Review 259 (2021) ‘Go to Work on a Braque!’
Review in PN Review 144 (2002) on Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht and Donald Justice
Review in PN Review 146 (2002) on James Fenton
Review in PN Review 148 (2002) on Ruth Padel's Looking at a Poem
Review in PN Review 193 (2010) on The Swallow Anthology of New American Poetry
Review in PN Review 197 (2011) on Andy Croft, W.N. Herbert and Paul Summers
Review in PN Review 256 (2020) Numinous Signs
Review in PN Review 263 (2022) on Miles Burrows
Review in PN Review 264 (2022) on Wendy Cope by Rory Waterman
Review in PN Review 278 (2024) on Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life
Translation of Poetry by Pier Paulo Pasolini in PN Review 202 (2011) Poems Around Town (translated by N. S. Thompson)
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