PNR 284, Editorial (July-August 2025) One subscriber to PN Review, John Looker, enjoyed Colin Bramwell’s introductory contribution to PNR 283 in Scots. With a parodic Home Counties voice, he said, ‘I should be grateful if you would kindly inform Mr Bramwell that I found his essay jolly interesting. Frightfully witty too. I had to read it slowly and, […]
PNR 283, May-June 2025 The PN Review 281 editorial occasioned many responses. Its themes have informed PN Review from early on – how writers exist between as well as within languages and dialects. The activity of translation from one language to another, from a given to an acquired dialect, can appear analogous to the initial process of generating experience […]
PNR 282, March-April 2025 I have spent recent weeks in the company of Charles Wesley. I happened upon his obelisk in Marylebone High Street, and then realised, week after week, that as many as a third of the hymns we sing at St John’s Church, Buxton, were written by him. He composed over 6,000 hymns – some […]
Honorary degrees and Medals of Honour are the University of Manchester’s ’s highest awards, and nominations come from current University students, alumni, staff and members of the Board of Governors or General Assembly. The Medal recognises Michael Schmidt’s significant contribution to publishing in Manchester, which includes founding the leading international poetry journal, PN Review (which […]
PNR 281, January-February 2025 This editorial comes to you from Oaxaca, where I spent six weeks over Christmas and New Year among Mexican friends and relations. I spoke almost exclusively Spanish, at public occasions, in conversation, and found my English deprivation growing daily more acute. My ability to remember words (in conversations with myself, my only Anglophone […]