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Just received the latest issue of @pnreview.bsky.social, with a selection of Henri Coulette’s poems, including the one I discuss in the post below.
The cover of PNR 288 (Poetry News Conversation Reviews)
A personal discovery: American poet Henri Coulette 1927–88. Love his poems in @pnreview.bsky.social 288. How about ‘The Renaissance in England’ which begins
'Wyatt takes up his quill. Henry has spoken.
Newfangleness goes gadding hereabout.
Farewell is honed and every promise broken’
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'As I leave the office I glance back at the Round Reading Room's double doors where the word OUT seems particularly stark, particularly pale.'
From Richard Price's feature 'The Accidental Curator', published in PN Review 287.
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'Until my mother Leila began her last twenty or so years of dying, I had thought of life as linear.'
From Anthony Vahni-Capildeo's report 'On Balance', as seen in PN Review 287.
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I have two poems in the new @pnreview.bsky.social 288. One is a Propertius (via Grigory Dashevsky). You can read it here:
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'Between transparent slabs
my flesh, unsiliconed
blood and tissue
squeezed to three centimetres.'
From Chen Yuhong's poem 'Mammogram', frrom PN Review 287, out latest edition.
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'My voice changes depending on the language I speak, and I have often thought that I'm a different person when I speak German, Spanish or English.'
From Alberto Manguel's feature 'With the Lobsters into Sea', from the latest PN Review 287.
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'Spring has dressed the earth in a patterned
gown of flowers whose beauty dazzles
the eye.'
From Abū Nuwās' When 'The Wine of Life is Drawn', published in PN Review 287, our latest edition.
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'These qualities - of being both, of the known and the unknown, the familiar and also the strange... are at the centre of a good deal of what I love in literary experience.'
From Kirsty Gunn's 'To travel both and be one traveller', published in PNR 287.
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And our reviews:
Sunil Iyengar on William H. Pritchard, Mike Freeman on Terry Eagleton, Nóra Blascsók on Petr Hruška, Theophilus Kwek on Sarah Howe, Rowland Bagnall on Emily Skillings, and Yogesh Patel on Hayim Nahman Bialik.
Kirsty Gunn discussing the lives and work of Muriel Spark and Katherine Mansfield, which can be read for free here:
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Ricardo Nirenberg considering the Orphic myth,
and Tony Roberts on William F. Buckley Jr.
Featuring:
Alberto Manguel's John Rylands Lecture, which you can read for free here:
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Dane Holt on Tony Harrison,
Richard Price from The Accidental Curator,
Philip Terry asking What Is Poetry?,
Reports from:
Anthony Vahni Capildeo, John Gallas, J. Kates, and Sam Adams.
Poetry by:
Chen Yuhong, Abū Nuwās, Yitzhak HaGorni, Raymond Quenau, Ben Egerton, Kevin Cormack, Roger Garfitt, Ian Pople, Marsha Pomerantz, and Michael Symmons Roberts.
PN Review 287 is here!⭐This issue includes...
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The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism.
Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling!
First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
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My poem "Ornithomancy" is in a recent issue of @pnreview.bsky.social
After publication, I started playing around with center-justifying the text:
From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 287, our latest issue.
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Si comme moi vous aimez Tony Harrison, rejoignez-nous pour cet hommage en ligne où on va partager autour de son oeuvre en buvant un bon verre de vin (ou un sirop de kumquat)
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This week's PN Review: From the Archive is a poem 'The Sea, The Sea' by Andrew McNeillie, published in PN Review 173, January - February 2007.
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'Tonight my brother's home is dark.
The fires are out, Nowhere to lie down.
I shall stop crying soon, I promise.'
From Rowan Williams' feature 'Heledd 2025', published in PN Review 286.
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This week's PN Review: From the Archive is an excerpt from Eavan Boland's interview with Jody Allen Randolph, published in PN Review 93, September - October 1993.
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My poem "Petrarch 189," based on the original Italian sonnet and Sir Thomas Wyatt's version, is in the most recent @pnreview.bsky.social. Here are the two previous works:
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'I was amused and humiliated by his levity loaded with the gravity of American racism. Should I laugh or cry? Or both?'
From Robert Bensen's article 'The Grave Levity of Derek Walcott', published in PN Review 286, our most recent edition.
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