Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and…
Home from Greece by Robert Selby
Above whitewashed, tabby-haunted Kamari, I wearied of the incessant inversions in Pope’s Homer, and left my self-improvement’s cooling terrace to…
What You Call Your ‘Winter Mode’ by Patri Wright
On the wicker chair I wait for the duvet’s rise: you’re just a mound, breath, as I worry over why,…
Men by Belinda Rule
I only like imaginary men, the ones who think my art is the most transporting thing they have ever seen,…
Fractals by Sudeep Sen | An Introduction by Fiona Sampson
Ahead of the launch of Sudeep Sen’s Fractals, read a few words on Sudeep Sen’s new collection by poet Fiona…
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The outer layer of your skin, the epidermis, replaces itself every 35 days. Become a vegetarian, better yet a vegan,…
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present…
The Sun Shines on Opera by Tom Sutcliffe
I will always remember my first visit to Glyndebourne. It was a Sunday and I was the countertenor in Westminster…
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo said in a 2012 interview with Zannab Sheikh that ‘poetry is a form of concentration’. Her latest collection,…
Forthcoming from TLM Editions | Fractals by Sudeep Sen
We are pleased to announce that the next publication from TLM Editions will be Fractals, the new collection by Sudeep…
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s life has been marked by a sense of ‘suspension’. Born to Bengali immigrants but brought up in America,…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2016 | An Update
This competition is now closed. Thank you so much to all entrants. The longlist, shortlist and winners will be announced over…
The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh
The opening pages of The Blade Artist read like the antithetical yoking of a delicate and diaphanous Stephen Daedalus-like epiphany…
Two Poems by Sean Borodale
Response to Finding a Fossil at Writhlington Coal Batches: A Fossil (a Fern) on Writhlington Batches Re-Take (Pt.II) Time not…
Coming Thunder by James McAskill
When we stole the eggs from the barn that June you said we held life in our hands. Untrue I…
Three Poems by Janet Sutherland
Chalk Paths At that exact spot there was a beautiful stillness; we were poised to begin our course along the…
Eros and Asbo by Miles Burrows
As a man under a restraining order Still follows his ex about from day to day I stalk your shadow…
The Easter Rising by Frank Armstrong
The one hundredth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will hardly register in most London Magazine readers’ minds, but for…
Onion Music by Mark Fiddes
I grow lighter for you with each striptease from skin to skin leaving a glimmering bulb a milk light by…
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
… And could she disentangle it, the stuff she’d seen in her mind’s eye, from the actual stuff of her…
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
In a museful snippet-cum-travelogue published by Lenny Letter earlier this month, Helen Oyeyemi detailed the auto-didacticism that characterized her first…
Dog Run Moon by Callan Wink
Callan Wink’s debut collection of stories stands as a promising start to a fine literary career. Some of the stories…
Three Poems by Selima Hill
First published in The London Magazine, October/November 1989 Deep in the Scented House Deep in the scented house, a herring…
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