Please join us at Castlefield Gallery for PN Review’s Spring Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Stav Poleg, Ophira Gottlieb, Philip Terry and Alex Wong.

Doors will open at 18:00 with readings from 18:30. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Please reserve a free ticket as spaces are limited. We will provide refreshments and copies of the magazine and related books will be available to purchase.

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About the readers:

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.

Philip Terry is a poet and experimental translator. His version of Dante’s Purgatorio, relocating Dante to Mersea island in Essex, is forthcoming from Carcanet in October 2024.

Ophira Gottlieb is a poet and writer based on the Northwest of England.

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. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2025.