‘I mean something closer to: am I a good person? Am I sincere and devout to those things in my life that I ought to be?’
New fiction by Benjamin George Coles.
Poetry | It’s About Time by Michael Bazzett
‘I’d rather let roots slip between my ribs / and knit these bones into the black soil / to keep them still and ease what restlessness/ might remain.’
New poetry by Michael Bazzett.
Poetry | Motif by Luciana Francis
‘I feed the birds / before I feed myself.’
New poetry by Luciana Francis.
Poetry | Even My Portraitist by Sylee Gore
‘Like clouds, I take my colour from the air.’
New poetry from Sylee Gore.
Fiction | After Sunlight by Gary Finnegan
‘The few days turned to weeks and years and it was a decade before we spoke about the future, a conversation focused on the past.’
New fiction by Gary Finnegan.
Fiction | What Are You Reading? by Madeleine Stein
‘And then, finally, what really puzzled him: what, I mean, what were women? What was it about them, as a group, that had always made him a little wary? They suddenly seemed too wearying an abstraction, like the geometry of curved space.’
New fiction by Madeleine Stein.
Poetry | Hit me with your rhythm stick by Rachel Burns
‘Dad drinks a pint of Newcastle Brown
feet sticking to the floor,
the room thick with fag smoke.
Dad 70’s cool, beard & sideburns & swagger.’
New poetry by Rachel Burns.
Fiction | Baa by Lilia Salammbô Fetini
‘You grow up in poverty. You are told you are lucky, and that luck is why you are the only child in the family who gets an education. You have a natural sense for numbers, and feel that luck is a question of numbers. It is a question of the number of years separating you and your siblings from the source of luck.’
New fiction by Lilia Salammbô Fetini.
Poetry | If you look closely by Tim Relf
‘everything is muddled, everything is metaphor.’
New poetry by Tim Relf.
Interview | Eva Fàbregas’s forms of desire
Currently showing at the Southbank Centre’s When Forms Come Alive exhibition, we spoke to Eva Fàbregas about her sculptural installations, form, and desire.
Interview | Self Portraits of Unconditional Love in David Tucker: Dad
Currently showing at Gallery 46, we spoke to David Tucker about his fearless paintings and sculptures.
Essay | For the Sake of a Few Trees by Pacifica Goddard
Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy & The Greatest Good
Review | World Rifting by Patrick Cash
Patrick Cash reviews Isabel Waidner’s ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’ and Alison Rumfitt’s ‘Brainwyrms’
Review | Light Verse by Hugh Foley
Hugh Foley reviews Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ and Timothy Donnelly’s ‘Chariot’
Fiction | People Who Can Love by Sarah Turner
‘I’d heard about the surgery even before Cathy reminded me of it. They’d discussed it on the radio one morning, and I’d half listened as I was making coffee, but it seemed experimental – outlandish, even – and I assumed the idea would flicker, smoke, and then go out, like the time they talked about finding volunteers to go to space forever.’
New fiction by Sarah Turner.
Review | Intellectual Property by Katrina Nzegwu
‘Whilst approaching the prosaic in terms of length and division, Warmelo’s disregard for grammatical conventions pays homage to, yet disrupts and furthers a poetic legacy.’
Katrina Nzegwu reviews Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s Intellectual Property.
Interview | Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London
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Interview | How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past
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Review | The Mother & the Weaver by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou The Mother & the Weaver The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection at the Foundling…
Essay | The Draft of the Medusa by Andrew Gallix [Extract]
Andrew Gallix The Draft of the Medusa . From Unwords by Andrew Gallix published by Dodo Ink, out 18th January…
Essay | Duelling Quills by Fernando Sdrigotti
Fernando Sdrigotti Duelling Quills . . You must have heard about The London Magazine – you are after all holding…
Interview | T. S. Eliot Prize nominee Kit Fan on elegy, nostalgia and poetry versus prose
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Review | Love, Between Surrender and Confrontation by Mai Serhan
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Poetry | Dansette by Nicky Kippax
. Nicky Kippax Dansette . Grandad’s pride and joy, black kit set square in a red box – glossy handle…
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