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Lawrence Sail

Lawrence Sail’s Waking Dreams: New & selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. His most recent collection, The Quick (also Bloodaxe), came out in 2015 and a new one, Guises, is due from Bloodaxe next year. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Lawrence Sail's work featured in PN Review comprises 52 reports, 10 contributions of poetry, two articles, and 17 reviews, over a period of 40 years. Also available are seven reviews of Lawrence Sail's work.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 8 (1979) Five Thoughts of the Violinist
Review in PN Review 8 (1979) on Gabriel Josipovici
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 11 (1980) on 'Poetry and Audience'
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 14 (1980) Von Custer's Last Stand
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 14 (1980) Lawrence Sail on Geoffrey Holloway
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 15 (1980) Four Poems
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 15 (1980) on Peter Redgrove
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 15 (1980) on Dominique Grandmont and Jack Beeching
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 16 (1980) on Alphabet Poems
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 16 (1980) on Patricia Beer
Subscribers only Reviewed by Fraser Steel in PN Review 18 (1981) on Lawrence Sail
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 19 (1981) on Japanese Prose Poetry and on Keene's 'Surviving'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on Joseph Brodsky
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 40 (1984) on Goethe
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 40 (1984) on Salvatore Quasimodo
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 43 (1985) Snooker Players
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 43 (1985) on Alistair Elliot
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on John Mole
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 50 (1986) The Quarry at Haytor
Subscribers only Reviewed by Neil Powell in PN Review 61 (1988) on John Mole and Lawrence Sail
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 62 (1988) on Philip Gross
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Heinrich Heine
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 71 (1990) on Irish Poets
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 72 (1990) Two Poems
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 95 (1994) Three Poems
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 97 (1994) Validating the Ticket
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 101 (1995) A Cheshire Cat's Grin
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 102 (1995) How and What
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 103 (1995) Glimpsed in Passing
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 104 (1995) Good, Better, Best
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 105 (1995) Beyond the Duchess and the Dean
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 106 (1995) Veni, Video, Vici
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 107 (1996) Lost in Wonder
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 108 (1996) Paying Attention
Subscribers only Reviewed by Matthew Francis in PN Review 108 (1996) on Peacocke, Joseph, Rumens, Sail
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 109 (1996) The Hole in the Flag
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 110 (1996) In Hope of Fair Advantages
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 111 (1996) Staying Tuned
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 112 (1996) Actual Emblems
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 113 (1997) No Shortage of Questions
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 114 (1997) Bosnian Fall
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 115 (1997) Thresholds
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 116 (1997) The Helfgott Hiatus
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 117 (1997) Beating the Bounds
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 118 (1997) Bees, Flowers, A Spider-Web and an Arch
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 119 (1998) Dens and Displays
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 120 (1998) Border Patrols
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 121 (1998) Seasonal Myths
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 122 (1998) What's the Griff?
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 123 (1998) Sincerely
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 124 (1998) Island Treasure
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 125 (1999) Winning the Bays
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 126 (1999) Dog-Days and Definitions
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 127 (1999) Escaping the Millennium
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 128 (1999) Bread and the Big Match
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 129 (1999) Buzz Words
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 130 (1999) Robinson Crucial
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 131 (2000) The Joyfulst Day
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 131 (2000) on Daniel Weissbort
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 132 (2000) Dealing with Disaster
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 133 (2000) Goldberg Variations
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 134 (2000) The Muse Militant
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 135 (2000) The P-Word
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 136 (2000) Informing Silences
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 137 (2001) Rocks of Ageing
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 138 (2001) Triplex
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 139 (2001) The Very Thing
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 140 (2001) Under the Eye of Apollo
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 140 (2001) The Musical Box
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 141 (2001) Vicious and Virtuous
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 142 (2001) Sodium, The Black Sausage, and Witless Nature
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 142 (2001) The Enclosures
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 143 (2002) 'Neighborhoods of Pause'
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 144 (2002) Bridge Passages
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 145 (2002) Reach and Grasp
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 146 (2002) Polyglots and Pedigree
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 147 (2002) The Long Home
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 148 (2002) The King's Head
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 149 (2003) Acquainted with Grief
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 150 (2003) The Double Echo
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 160 (2004) The Score at Medellín
Subscribers only Reviewed by Peter Scupham in PN Review 175 (2007) on Lawrence Sail
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 193 (2010) Ghostings
Subscribers only Reviewed by Emma Hogan in PN Review 205 (2012) on Carol Rumens and Lawrence Sail
Subscribers only Reviewed by Joey Connolly in PN Review 218 (2014) on Lawrence Sail, Peter Hughes, J.O. Morgan and Brendan Kennelly
Subscribers only Poetry in PN Review 239 (2018) Two Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 240 (2018) Transactions and Touchstones
Subscribers only Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury in PN Review 241 (2018) on Enitharmon Press
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