PN Review poetry reading at Castlefield Gallery
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Poetry Reading: PN Review
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To celebrate the publication of its autumn issue, PN Review is hosting a special reading event featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Sinéad Morrissey, Padraig Regan, Evan Jones and Ophira Gottlieb.
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, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Sinéad Morrissey, reading here, and Sasha Dugdale, reading at Poets & Players on 27 September.
About the Autumn 2025 readers:
Sinéad Morrissey is the author of six collections, all published by Carcanet, and the recipient of both the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. Her memoir Among Communists will be published by Carcanet in March 2026.
Here at CT, we absolutely loved reading Padraig Regan’s debut poetry collection, Some Integrity, which was published by Carcanet in 2022. Other people did too, and it received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2023 and the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021. It was also shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, as well as longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Polari Book Prize.
Canadian poet Evan Jones lives in Manchester. His latest collection is Later Emperors (Carcanet, 2020). It follows Paralogues (2012) and his first collection of poetry, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), which was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He co-edited Modern Canadian Poets (2010) and his translation from the Modern Greek, The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems and Prose of CP Cavafy (2020), was a TLS Book of the Year.
Hailing from Glasgow, living in West Yorkshire, 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. She has had poetry published in PN Review, Harana Poetry and New Writing Scotland. She mostly writes poems about sheep but that’s more of a coincidence than a rule.
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.
