PN Review

Number 243

Schmidt Michael

The September-October 2018 issue

The last published poems of the late Matthew Sweeney

A translation of one of the most famous Ethiopian oral poems

John Ash's first published poem in over a decade

New poems by Sophie Hannah, Claudine Toutoungi and Drew Milne

Essay by Vahni Capildeo: 'Earwormed by a Keynote, with Added Ghosts'

With translations from the Arabic, Ethiopian, German, Greek, Indian and Spanish

New to PN Review this issue: Clare Jones, Bedilu Wakjira, Sam Trainor and Susan de Sola

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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