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25.11.2025 09:52 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where @francescabrooks.bsky.social and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems.
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Ned Denny after Verlaine November Dusk Autumn and the departing sun, and I am wild with joy! Corpse hues drenched in blood, a five-alarm sky, death possessing a world of mud, torpid ponds, and man the sick child! This is, poet, your hour and your season, all illusions gone, your heart laid bare, that tender heart which the rats' feet of passion tear, your looking-glass, your festival! Let academics, dupes, and noted authors fawn over the springtime and the dawn, those two foxy virgins even costlier than their frocks; I choose you, autumn, prefer your dark grace to any little darling's face, you my implacable and strange-eyed courtesan.
Early start interpreting at the eye hospital. Reading Ned Dennyβs envigorating versions in @pnreview.bsky.social while two old chaps discuss how βbrown bread turns you out nicely. Surprisingly quickly actually.β
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This week from the archive: an excerpt from Natalia Ginzburg's article 'Portrait of a Friend' published in PN Review 40, November - December 1984.
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If I can just make this one thing not die,
the clappers in the loft will stop their murders.'
From Joseph Minden's poem 'Alfriston Clergy House', published in PN Review 285, our latest edition.
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This week from the archive: Two Poems by WisΕawa Szymborska, translated by John & Bogdana Carpenter and published in PN Review 26, July - August 1982.
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'Waves foam and pitch, cross-hatched with the annual flickering of shearwaters.'
From 'Writings for Brear' by Horatio Morpurgo, published in PN Review 285.β
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
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This week's Substack: an excerpt from Francesca Brooks' article 'A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts', published in our recent PN Review 285, September - October 2025.
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'PNR 285 in coffee shop, Saint Lucia, bagel and lemon shandy....come on down...'
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'There was something mysterious and compelling about this piece of writing's very existence. '
Francesca Brooks' article on following in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts. From PN Review 285, our latest edition.
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This week from the archive: an excerpt from Thomas A Clark's interview with Alice Tarbuck, published in PN Review 229, May - June 2016.
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'All our own fires
too, will someday
go out.'
From Stephanie Burt's poem 'Eclipse' published in PN Review 285, our latest edition.
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This week from the archive: an excerpt from Evan Jones' article 'We need to talk about Canada' published in PN Review 211, May - June 2013.
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'His unique blend of body horror, childish babble and pastoral utopia, however, remains as striking today as ever.'
Fred Warren reviewing Nikolai Zabolotsky in PNR 285, our latest edition.
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This week from the archive: an excerpt from Mimi Khalvati's interview with Vicky Bertram, published in PN Review 130, November - December 1999.
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'What was coming of age in the fifties really like? No story is more repeatedly misconstrued.'
From Marjorie Perloff's 'My 1950s', published in PN Review 285.
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In honour of the late Tony Harrison, his poem 'A Kumquat for John Keats' is featured this week on our Substack. The poem was originally published in PN Review 21, November - December 1981.
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'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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A photo of me reading from βMen of the Same Nameβ at the @pnreview.bsky.social event, Castlefield Gallery.
04.10.2025 18:27 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
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This week's Substack: an excerpt from SinΓ©ad Morrisey's article 'God's Day', published in our most recent edition PN Review 285, September - October 2025.
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From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 285, our latest issue.
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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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'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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