PN Review 281

The January-February 2025 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes Sujata Bhatt’s stories of a Gujarat childhood; Anthony Vahni Capildeo on ‘Water Poetics’; Dan Burt's memoir of the late Frank Auerbach; new poems by Tara Bergin, Laura Scott, Evan Jones, Marilyn Hacker, and Gregory Woods; and other essays, poems and reviews. Our vast archive now includes over 280 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.