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The UK's most stimulating literary journal, where the many worlds of poetry converse. Published by @carcanet.bsky.social. Subscribe here: http://goo.gl/QNqGCH 🔗 https://linktr.ee/pnreview

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

PN Review 285 is here! See below for some highlights…

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 1d

'Are male same-sex abusers also musers
on the exchange they 'knew to be consensual?'

From 'Unlovely, but', one of the poems written by Carol Rumens for our most recent PN Review.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 2d

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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social · 4d

A photo of me reading from ‘Men of the Same Name’ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 6d

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 6d

This week's Substack: an excerpt from Sinéad Morrisey's article 'God's Day', published in our most recent edition PN Review 285, September - October 2025.

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God's Day by Sinéad Morrissey

PN Review 285, September - October 2025

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 6d

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 6d

Happy @poetrydayuk.bsky.social 🎉
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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 7d

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 285, our latest issue.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 8d

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 8d

'We know this view. It is familiar, and its unchanging parts have become anchors for our mind's home.'

From Fawzia Muradali Kane's recent report, published in PN Review 285.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Cover artwork by Marsden Hartley.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

And our reviews:
James Dowthwaite on Enuma Elish, Gregory Woods on Hilary Holladay, Suni Iyengar on Mark Ford's Essays, Fred Warren on Nikolai Zabolotsky, Diana Leca on Karen Solie, Nóra Blascsók on Krisztina Tóth, and Andrew Wynn Owen on Jamie McKendrick .

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Philip Terry discussing What is Poetry?
J. Kates reflecting on nineteen years of change in Mississippi.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Tony Roberts on Czesław Miłosz and Poland's occupation by Germany.
Sinéad Morrissey's reflection on her childhood during the Troubles.
Alexandra Reza on Aimé Césaire's 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' (Return to My Native Land).

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Featuring:
Horatio Morpurgo visiting Brear, which you can read for free here:
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Francesca Brooks on following in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts.
Marjorie Perloff's unfinished memoir features.
Richard Price as a British Library curator.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Reports from:
Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Fawzia Muradali Kane, Stephen Romer, Penny Boxall, Rebecca Watts and Sam Adams.

You can read Fawzia Muradali Kane's report for free here:
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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

Poetry by:
John Gallas, Carol Rumens, Joe Winter, Stephanie Burt, James Womack, John Robert Lee, Joseph Minden, John Birtwhistle.

PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

PN Review 285 is here! See below for some highlights…

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 9d

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome.

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Select tickets – PN Review Autumn Readings 2025 – Castlefield Gallery

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 12d

Just one week left until PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025! Join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm - the event is free and everyone is welcome.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 13d

This week from the archive: From an Old Songbook by Daniel Huws published in one of the very first PN Review's, PN Review 1, October - December 1977.

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From an Old Songbook by Daniel Huws

PN Review 1, October - December 1977

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 13d

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 15d

'Held in this night where all things brim with reality, I find as one the burning lamp, my family safe, snow like soft diamonds, a village caressed by darkness'.

From Michael Edwards' 'Poems from Wivenhoe', published in PN Review 284.

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 15d

'It's Holt's vibrant imagination that makes this a startling and generous book.'

Molly Twomey for Poetry Ireland Review on Dane Holt's 'Father's Father's Father'.

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Father's Father's Father

A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 Dane Holt’s subject is often the aftermath of tragedy – ecological, personal or social – but these poe...

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · 16d

This National Poetry Day join us to celebrate poetry at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 2nd October at 6pm for PN Review's Autumn Readings! The event is free and everyone is welcome.

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Select tickets – PN Review Autumn Readings 2025 – Castlefield Gallery

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery for PN Review's Autumn Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Siné...

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