PN Review 226

Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing Director of Carcanet Press and founder and general Editor of PN Review. He has published several collections of poems, two novels, a number of anthologies and volumes of literary history, and two books of translations.Luke Allan studied Literature & Creative Writing at UEA. Before joining Carcanet as Managing Editor in 2015 he worked as a project manager in the Arts in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and managed Studio Alec Finlay and the poetry press Morning Star. He is founding-director of the poetry press sine wave peak and co-founder of the poetry magazine Butcher's Dog; he also edits the journal Quait and is former editor of the Newcastle Philosophy Society journal. In 2011 his poetry received a Northern Promise Award. His first collection, minimum soft exchange, will be published by MIEL in 2015.

PoemsDylan Thomas A Dream of WinterHelen Farish Jane Eyre: Bride, Wife, Artist, Mother, WidowIan Patterson The WorksDaniel Brown Split Personality (and other poems)David C. Ward Brady's Studio (and other poems)Emily Grosholz Insomnia (and other poems)M. G. Stephens Some Kind of Love Poem (and other poems)Chris Edgoose Parents hoping a child will die in Europe (and other poems)Alex Wylie A Novelist Can't Finish Her Debut NovelLen Krisak Two PoemsSergey Stratanovsky (tr. J. Kates) The Hermitage (and other poems)Ian Seed Place to Rent (and other poems)ReportsVahni Capildeo Dolphins and CigarettesSam Adams Letter from WalesJamie Callison 'The Heart Of Time' Revisited: A New Translation by David JonesThomas Kinsella W. B. Yeats's 'Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation': A Personal ReadingM. C. Caseley A Pilgrimage to Little GiddingFrank Kuppner Apres une lecture de HopkinsFeaturesGabriel Josipovici Why Write Fiction?Gregory O'Brien In Defence of Poetry as an Offshore Island and Art as an Undersea Mammal or Coral ReefJohn Ashbery The Heavy Bear: Delmore Schwartz's Life Versus His PoetryDavid Hoak Proofs of Love: The Last Letters of Lota de Macedo SoaresMary Maxwell The Way Grass Grows: Janice Biala, Ford Madox Ford and Ezra Pound's Pisan CantosYves Bonnefoy (tr. John Naughton) The Tombs of RavennaLuke Thompson The Dark God of Sister Mary AgnesGrevel Lindop In Conversation (Helen Tookey) and Two PoemsReviews Gareth Reeves on American Poetry after ModernismValerie Duff on The Little Magazine in Contemporary AmericaIan Brinton on Late Modernism and The English IntelligencerNicolas Tredell on Derek AttridgeStuart Farley on Sperling on HillJosh Hinton on Taplin's SophoclesAndrew Hadfield on Lavinia GreenlawJamie Osborn on Jan WagnerIsabel Galleymore on Jack ClemoPeter Scupham on Anthony ThwaiteElizabeth Davies on Madeleine BeckmanRebecca Varley-Winter on Holly PesterAlison Brackenbury on Sweeney, Koenegracht, King, Kennefick, and Astley