PN Review 278

The July-August 2024 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 Gwyneth Lewis discussing her forthcoming memoir and considering the vexed issue of motherhopod in her ‘Spiderings’ sequence; Ian Thomson revisits the concluding chapters of his mother’s Second World War in Tallinn, the Baltic; Adrian May confronts Tradition and Traditionalism; and Andrew McNeillie’s re-viewing of Dylan Thomas concludes. Our vast archive now includes over 270 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.