PN Review 290

The July-August 2026 issue

The ways in which poetry, ancient and modern, is affected, shaped and mis-shapen by historical and cultural circumstances is explored in this issue, where politics and its consequences are never far away, and yet the physical, cultural and natural worlds keep reviving and sometimes redeeming the present. From Futuna Chapel in New Zealand to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, there are startling continuities; from the English of New Zealand to the of Canada, from the war-torn landscapes of the Ukraine to the reading rooms of the British Library, poets breathe and share a common air that mingles with that of the poets of the past, of Leopardi, of Callimachus...