PN Review8

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 CPA/1/2/3/7
  • Former Reference
      GB 133 Sequence 2, Boxes 9 [61] and 11 [63]
  • Dates of Creation
      31 Mar-18 Jul 1978 & n.d.
  • Physical Description
      4 pieces; 478 sheets

Scope and Content

Manuscript and proofs of PN Review 8 (1978). This issue contained: editorial by Donald Davie; poems by Thom Gunn, La Fontaine (translated by C.H. Sisson), Fleur Adcock, Peter Scupham, Clive Wilmer, Robert Wells, Michael Vince, Dick Davis, Andrew Waterman, C.H. Sisson, Derwent May, Neil Powell, Robert Conquest, Lawrence Sail and David Wright; essays and review articles by Clyde Binfield, David Martin, John Haffenden, Angela Livingstone, John Pilling, David Levy, Marcelin Pleynet (translated by Grahame White), Donald Hall, Millicent Dillon, Andrew Waterman and Robert Musil (translated by J. Le Vay); letters to the editor from Michael Launchbury, Jim Burns and Dudley Young; and book reviews by Blake Morrison, Matt Simpson, Michael Schmidt, David Trotter, Deborah Mitchell, Nick Rhodes, Dick Davis, Andrew Waterman, Paul Wilkins, John Paul Russo, Lawrence Sail, Una Allis, Paul Edwards and David Levy. Internal evidence suggests that the proofs were produced by Woodspring Press of Bridgwater, Somerset, and the issue was printed by Unwin Brothers at The Gresham Press. Robert Wells was responsible for copy-editing the issue.