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NEWS
The autumn double issue of CR (53:2/3) is back from the press and has been sent to subscribers. Website update coming soon...
Subscribe to CR starting with our autumn issue.
Click here for the table of contents. [PDF]
Congratulations to W. Martin, Aditya Behl, and Susan Bernofsky, each of whom won a $20,000 grant from the NEA. Martin, a former fiction editor of CR and editor of the Polish and German special issues, will be translating a novel by Karol Irzykowski from the Polish. Behl, co-editor of CR's Contemporary Indian Poetry issue, will translate the Mirigavati, an Indian Sufi romance. Bernofsky, whose translations appeared in CR's German issue, will translate Robert Walser's early novel The Tanners.
Chicago Review congratulates Charles Simic on his appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate. Simic published his first poems in the Winter 1959 issue of CR. Click here to download them in PDF.
Check out Andrea Brady's photos from her visit (with Peter Manson, Keston Sutherland, Robin Purves, Sam Ladkin, and Matt Ffytche) to Chicago, Notre Dame, Miami of Ohio, and points east.
"THIS RHYMELESS NATION"
A PAMPHLET ON THE POETRY FOUNDATION BY WARREN BANDITTO
The current British poetry issue presents two significant features.
The first—co-edited and introduced by Sam Ladkin &
Robin Purves—presents 80 pages of poems by:
Andrea Brady
Chris Goode
Peter Manson
Keston Sutherland
Plus critical commentaries on the four poets by John Wilkinson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sam Ladkin, Simon Jarvis, &
Matt Ffytche.
The second feature presents fifteen reviews of new books of British poetry and well as some startling bonus material:
Calvin Bedient on Seamus Heaney & Charles Tomlinson
Forrest Gander on J.H. Prynne
V. Joshua Adams on Lee Harwood
R.H. Abbott on Michael Haslam
Michael Robbins on Martin Corless-Smith
Leila Wilson on Sarah Law
Heidi Lynn Staples on Peter Finch
Robert P. Baird on Peter Larkin
Rusty Morrison on Thomas A. Clark
John Lennox on Geraldine Monk
Kai Fierle Hedrick on Caroline Bergvall
Mark Scroggins on John Wilkinson
Peter Manson on Gael Turnbull
Adam Piette on Barry MacSweeney
Kent Johnson on Andrew Duncan
A long note by Keith Tuma on some younger British poets: Jow Lindsay, Emily Critchley, Sean Bonney, and others!
Letters from Peter Riley and Catherine Wagner
Poster insert by Andrew Duncan entitled "Styles of British Poetry 1945–2000"
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