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John Lucas

The title of John Lucas’s new novel, The Life in Us, due in April, is taken from Anne Stevenson’s poem ‘An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything’.

John Lucas's work featured in PN Review comprises four reports, nine articles, one interview, and three reviews, over a period of 29 years. Also available are five reviews of John Lucas's work.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris in PN Review 74 (1990) on John Lucas and John Whitworth
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 104 (1995) Enormous Air: Modern Australian Poetry
Subscribers only Reviewed by Tim Kendall in PN Review 116 (1997) on David Hartnett, John Lucas, Jamie McKendrick
Subscribers only Reviewed by Roger Caldwell in PN Review 152 (2003) on John Lucas's Starting to Explain
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 158 (2004) Plain Speaking and the Language of the Heart
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 162 (2005) Scholar Poets and History
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 174 (2007) Two ggs Bad Two ggs Good
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 184 (2008) Lucretius in English
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 201 (2011) 'Cost and Care': The Aesthete's Progress
Subscribers only Reviewed by Rory Waterman in PN Review 205 (2012) on Michael Glover, John Lucas and Robert Nye
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 206 (2012) The World of Poetry Competitions
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 208 (2012) on Six Eighteenth-Century Poets
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 211 (2013) Douglas Houston
Subscribers only Reviewed by Alex Wylie in PN Review 221 (2015) on poetry of the First World War
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 225 (2015) G. S. Fraser, 1915–1980
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 234 (2017) On the Watch
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 257 (2021) Anne Stevenson, 1933–2020
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 259 (2021) on John Fuller
Subscribers only Interview in PN Review 270 (2023) In conversation with Rory Waterman
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