News | Poetry Prize 2023: Robert Hamberger wins first place for his poem ‘Funny Girl’
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2023 awards first place to Robert Hamberger, for his poem ‘Funny Girl’, as part of…
Fiction | In the Dark by Sorcha Hamilton
Sorcha Hamilton In the Dark … He sat in the red armchair all evening, drinking cans and smoking. In his…
Fiction | Islam Inc. by Youssef Rakha [Extract]
Youssef Rakha Islam Inc. … It occurred to me that, on an evening like this in the late seventies, when…
Poetry | Two Poems by Scott Elder
Scott Elder Two Poems ….. In the Maelström First the fissure, then the fall one little cog has given up…
Fiction | The Weathermen Were On Strike by JL Bogenschneider
JL Bogenschneider The Weathermen Were On Strike Spokane Daily Chronicle, Mar. 13 1948 Did I ever tell you about…
Fiction | The Uses of Beauty by Hugh Dunkerley
Hugh Dunkerley The Uses of Beauty …. When Clare wakes, the car is moving along a wide valley between fields…
Poetry | Four Poems by Georgio Russell
Georgio Russell Four Poems … By the Bimini Docks Another ten-seat ferry carries newcomers northbound to these shanty towns, gliding…
Essay | Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being by Raymond Shorthouse
Raymond Shorthouse Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being In contemporary philosophical debate there is increasing interest in the role…
Poetry | Farouk by Yvonne Green
Yvonne Green Farouk But, I asked my mum, how could he have eaten 40 quail at one sitting? he being…
Review | Drawing Blood: Why T.J. Clark Still Thinks Cézanne Can Save Us by Adam Heardman
Adam Heardman Drawing Blood: Why T.J. Clark Still Thinks Cézanne Can Save Us If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and…
Essay | Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching was shown at Spike Island, Bristol, between…
Essay | You Must Change Your Life: Making Room For Wonder by Maya Popa
Maya C. Popa You Must Change Your Life: Making Room for Wonder Among the daily wonders we experience as human…
Fiction | Widow: Dominic Rose by Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades Widow: Dominic Rose At god knows what hour the doorbell goes. Morning? It’s still dark. There I was…
Essay | A New Season by Tara McEvoy
Tara McEvoy A New Season My first training session with the East Belfast ladies Gaelic football team was on July…
Poetry | Newly Arrived by Christopher Horton
Christopher Horton Newly Arrived The neighbours each ask us why we left London. What they really want to know…
Poetry | Maybe I’ll Be A Waitress by Alex Marlow
Alex Marlow Maybe I’ll Be A Waitress Listen. I’ve decided to go soft. Maybe I’ll be a waitress, at the…
Fiction | Aurora by Seraphina Madsen [Extract]
Seraphina Madsen Aurora The following extract is reproduced with permission from Seraphina Madsen’s Aurora. A surreal, speculative, read-in-one-sitting, feminist literary…
Essay | A North London Light by Christiana Spens
Christiana Spens A North London Light Joshua Press works from home. More specifically, he paints from home, and in a…
Poetry | The Greenhouse by Lianne O’Hara
Lianne O’Hara The Greenhouse Electric cobwebs of daughter around my skin: magnetic fields of resistance, invisible sweat too slippery to…
Interview | Ryan O’Neill
Eric Martiny Ryan O’Neill Ryan O’Neill is a Scottish writer living in Australia. In recent years, he has made a…
Poetry | Two Poems by Sarah Fletcher
Sarah Fletcher Two Poems On the Tedium of Memory, On Rape Onlookers compose her illustrated autotome: she is carried…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2023
Over the years The London Magazine has been home to some of the most prestigious poets in its long publishing history, from John…
Poetry | Glass by Emily Cooper
Emily Cooper Glass I buy a slide projector in a charity shop/ another woman is after it/ I avoid eye…
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