Poetry London Summer Readings: Rachael Allen, Andrew McMillan, Vahni Capildeo and Emily Berry
Poetry London’s summer launch opened with an impassioned speech by the poet Karen McCarthy Wood, who is a trustee on…
Joel Shapiro at Pace London
Walking into the Joel Shapiro exhibition at the Pace gallery is like entering a painting, as a friend of mine…
An interview with Patricia McCarthy
We spoke to Patricia McCarthy, one of the judges for our Poetry Prize 2017, who gave a bit of advice on…
Through it by Ila Colley
This is not throwing plates, how you ask me. Too late for that. This is a whisper dissection. This is…
The First Time They Lowered The Flags by Peter Ainsworth
The first time they lowered the flags The President bowed his head. The next time they placed flowers To mourn…
The Vintage Poetry Showcase: Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi
Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi’s recent reading is one of the most spectacular that I have attended. R. A. Villanueva…
Internet Poetry by Paul Gittins
In the seventh of his twelve lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, the late Geoffrey Hill took issue with the…
Faber Reading: An Evening with Emily Berry, Emma Jones, Zaffar Kunial, Daljit Nagra, Richard Scott
The Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell Close was beautifully lit with fairy lights, and the low chatter of poetry…
Lisa Brice at the Stephen Friedman Gallery
In 1959 Yves Klein wrote: “blue has no dimensions.” For him, all other colours could be relegated to specific associative…
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait Gallery
According to a new exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the artist’s principal concerns…
An interview with Paul Benney
If you walk along one of the leafy roads from Hackney Downs and turn down a little side street, you…
An interview with Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson MBE is a poet and writer, published in thirty-seven languages, who has received international prizes in the US,…
Acrostic by Sudeep Sen
(R.I.P. Derek Walcott: January 23, 1930 – March 17, 2017) Deep seas of yesteryears wash new froth on your home…
Pigeons by Kate Bingham
I It’s just the same old air a person breathes, roughly the same respiratory system, steady compared with ours, the…
We Are The Cenotaphs by Aaron Fagan
Over a cup of Marco Polo And a bowl of bird’s nest soup, Listening to the world as a whole…
Competence by Anna Kahn
There is nothing in this room for those who have not learned to sing without thinking, who don’t know where…
Poetry Prize 2017
As of midnight tonight (30th June 2017) this competition will be closed. The London Magazine has been home to some…
Vanessa Bell at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
How much context do we need to appreciate a painting? Take, for example, Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach, 1912. We might…
Hair by Sam McKnight at Somerset House
Follow lipstick red arrows pasted on the floor of Somerset House round winding steps down the rabbit hole, and you…
Poetry and the Public by Paul Gittins
The prestigious T.S. Eliot Award in January that kicked off the poetry establishment’s crowded calendar of poetry competitions served to…
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth…
Bright Celestial Objects by Rebecca Goss
After Alison Watt, ‘Venus’ (2015) Their backs against the grass, she felt a pull, as if the leaves on the…
Madness by Patrick Cash
There’s a stream by the Avon ward Where I stand to watch the water flow And unwind the whirlpools of…
The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Cherry Jones returns to the role of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany. This London…
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