Chicago Review cel­e­brates the pub­li­ca­tion of the new British Poetry Issue with a launch party on Friday, April 6 at the Elas­tic Arts Space (2830 N. Mil­wau­kee in Chicago). Join us start­ing at 8pm for read­ings by Andrea Brady, Peter Manson, and Keston Suther­land. (Co-​sponsored by the Dis­crete Series.) If you can’t make the party, the poets will also be read­ing at the U. of Chicago’s Poem Present series on Thurs­day, April 5 at 5:30pm in Rosen­wald 405. Andrea and Keston will present short lec­tures on Friday at 1pm (also in Rosen­wald 405).

A 232-page issue fea­tur­ing the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Suther­land. Also: crit­i­cal work on these poets by Jeremy Noel-​Tod, Simon Jarvis, John Wilkin­son, and Matt Ffytche; and an inter­view with Chris Goode by Sam Ladkin. The issue also includes fif­teen reviews of new British poetry (includ­ing my review of Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field [PDF]), a note by Keith Tuma on younger British poets, let­ters by Cather­ine Wagner and Peter Riley, and a poster by Andrew Duncan (”Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000″).

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