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PN Review 234

Volume 43 Number 4 March - April 2017

ON THE COVER: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Reclamation (2003). Copyright © Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison. Courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. PNR cover-art curator: Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir.

Inside Front Cover

Pictures from a Library

Editorial

News & Notes

Letters

Reports

Madwoman: What Compelled You Vahni Capildeo

Letter from Paris Jennie Feldman

Looking for Lorca Trevor Barnett

Letter from Wales Sam Adams

From the Journals R.F. Langley

Glasgow SQE University: Entrance Examination Frank Kuppner

Features

The Golden Ratio: Poetry & Mathematics Emily Grosholz

What’s Found in Translation Karen Van Dyck

‘Just Saying No’: Beckett’s Epistolary Dissidence Drew Milne

Yeats, Landor, Hill & An Unwritten Book Peter McDonald

Translator’s Notebook : 2 (ed. James McGonigal) Edwin Morgan

On the Watch John Lucas

Poetry in Motion Maitreyabandhu

Poems

Ways to Get About Busan John Wilkinson

Three Poems Laura Scott

Three Poems Anjali Yardi

Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Sujata Bhatt

Three Poems Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann

Four Poems Paolo Febbraro

Three Poems Igor Klikovac

A Translation & Three Poems Carol Rumens

Two Poems Jack Hanson

Switchblade Jay Degenhardt

Four Poems John Upton

Two Poems Adam Thorpe

Two Poems Becky Cullen

Three Poems Leo Mayer

Three Poems James Leo McAskill

Two Poems Rowland Bagnall

Reviews

on Richard Holmes & Deaths of the Poets Tony Roberts

on Terence Cave’s Thinking with Literature Nicolas Tredell

on Reginald Gibbons’s How Poems Think Evan Jones

on Donald Childs’s The Birth of New Criticism Mark Thompson

on William Wootten & Clasp Michael Daniels

on Dominique Edde’s The Crime of Jean Genet Gregory Woods

on Roger Scruton’s Wagner Roger Caldwell

on Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Seasons of Cullen Church Maitreyabandhu

on Fiona Sampson’s The Catch Sue Leigh

on Martyn Crucefix’s Daodejing Shengchi Hsu

on John McAuliffe’s The Way In Hilary Davies

on James Tate & Em Strang Ian Seed

on Elsa Cross, Sandeep Parmar, Linda Black, Susan Connolly & Em Strang John Muckle

on Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary Poems and How to Read Them Henry King

on ten pamphlets Alison Brackenbury

Inside Back Cover

From Chetham’s Library Michael Powell

PN Review 234

Volume 43 Number 4 March - April 2017

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	PN Review 234 Volume 43 Number 4 March - April 2017 ON THE COVER: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Reclamation (2003). Copyright © Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison. Courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago. PNR cover-art curator: Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir. Inside Front Cover Pictures from a Library Editorial News & Notes Letters Reports Madwoman: What Compelled You Vahni Capildeo Letter from Paris Jennie Feldman Looking for Lorca Trevor Barnett Letter from Wales Sam Adams From the Journals R.F. Langley Glasgow SQE University: Entrance Examination Frank Kuppner Features The Golden Ratio: Poetry & Mathematics Emily Grosholz What’s Found in Translation Karen Van Dyck ‘Just Saying No’: Beckett’s Epistolary Dissidence Drew Milne Yeats, Landor, Hill & An Unwritten Book Peter McDonald Translator’s Notebook : 2 (ed. James McGonigal) Edwin Morgan On the Watch John Lucas Poetry in Motion Maitreyabandhu Poems Ways to Get About Busan John Wilkinson Three Poems Laura Scott Three Poems Anjali Yardi Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Sujata Bhatt Three Poems Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann Four Poems Paolo Febbraro Three Poems Igor Klikovac A Translation & Three Poems Carol Rumens Two Poems Jack Hanson Switchblade Jay Degenhardt Four Poems John Upton Two Poems Adam Thorpe Two Poems Becky Cullen Three Poems Leo Mayer Three Poems James Leo McAskill Two Poems Rowland Bagnall Reviews on Richard Holmes & Deaths of the Poets Tony Roberts on Terence Cave’s Thinking with Literature Nicolas Tredell on Reginald Gibbons’s How Poems Think Evan Jones on Donald Childs’s The Birth of New Criticism Mark Thompson on William Wootten & Clasp Michael Daniels on Dominique Edde’s The Crime of Jean Genet Gregory Woods on Roger Scruton’s Wagner Roger Caldwell on Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Seasons of Cullen Church Maitreyabandhu on Fiona Sampson’s The Catch Sue Leigh on Martyn Crucefix’s Daodejing Shengchi Hsu on John McAuliffe’s The Way In Hilary Davies on James Tate & Em Strang Ian Seed on Elsa Cross, Sandeep Parmar, Linda Black, Susan Connolly & Em Strang John Muckle on Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary Poems and How to Read Them Henry King on ten pamphlets Alison Brackenbury Inside Back Cover From Chetham’s Library Michael Powell PN Review 234 Volume 43 Number 4 March - April 2017
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