PN Review

Number 242

Schmidt Michael

The July-August 2018 issue

Simon Armitage's Oxford Lecture on Elizabeth Bishop

Two previously unpublished essays by Anthony Burgess

John Clegg discovers the real characters behind the pub scene in Eliot's The Waste Land

Vahni Capildeo picks up Kei Miller's "hot potato" from the previous issue

New poems by Les Murray

New poems and translations from Israel, Korea, Spain and Holland

and more...

About the Author

Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, "The Colonist" (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of "PN Review" and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.

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