PN Review poetry reading at Castlefield Gallery
Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor
To celebrate the publication of its spring issue, PN Review is hosting a special reading event featuring recent contributors to the magazine.
In association with Manchester-based poetry press Carcanet, leading literary journal PN Review is in its 51st year. Since starting as Poetry Nation, a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, PN Review has been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the world. The archive now includes over 280 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times, including Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, WS Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, CH Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.
About the Spring 2025 readers:
Philip Terry is a poet and experimental translator, and the editor of the Penguin Book of Oulipo. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Michèle Métail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel tapestry, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include Oulipoems, Dante’s Inferno, Dictator, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish, and his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, published by Carcanet in April 2022. Most recently, his version of Dante’s Purgatorio, relocating Dante to Mersea island in Essex, came out with Carcanet in October 2024.
Stav Poleg’s debut poetry collection, The City, was published by Carcanet in spring 2022. It was chosen for the Financial Times‘ Best Summer Books 2022, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection, 2023. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, 2021), among others. Her poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, in the New Yorker, Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. Stav Poleg’s second poetry collection is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2025 – perhaps we’ll get a sneak peek at this event!
Alex Wong has published two collections of verse with Carcanet: Poems Without Irony (2017) and Shadow and Refrain (2021). He is currently preparing a selection from Alice Meynell for Carcanet Classics.
Based in the North West of England, Ophira Gottlieb – who has been spied performing at top Bradford readings series More Song – is a poet and writer, and contributor to the Manchester Mill.
The event is free and everyone is welcome, but please reserve a ticket as spaces are limited. Refreshments will be provided and copies of the magazine and related books will be available to purchase.
