Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Angus Cargill
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we caught up with judge Angus Cargill and found…
Kiss-Kiss-Kissuni by Frances Park
Memories. Some lie dormant for decades then suddenly spring awake, fresh as yesterday. I like to think the writer in…
An interview with Southbank Centre Literature Festival’s Ted Hodgkinson
This October, Southbank Centre will host its 10th Literature Festival, ‘Living in Future Times’. Beginning with a reading of H. G.…
Dead Women Poets Society
‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
In their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Shining Shoes by Nausheen Eusuf
Weekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
Yerma at the Young Vic
Australian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
An interview with Camille Ralphs
Hurst Street Press publisher Shoshana Kessler speaks to poet Camille Ralphs about her recent poetry publication Malkin. SK: I recently…
I Don’t Live in a Mountainous Country by Talin Tahajian
We look up, & beyond the maple trees & the brick steeples with weathervane roosters, clouds billow as sleeping monsters.…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets Schools
SLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
An interview with Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in 1945 in Cullen, Co Cork. His latest collection, The Seasons of Cullen Church, returns with…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – Shortlist
This year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
An interview with Ian McMillian
In this interview with Ian McMillan, The London Magazine’s Editor, Steven O’Brien, and Production Manager, Rachel Chanter, discuss Ian McMillan’s…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Through by David Herd
David Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises…
The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Alongside a fruitful film career, it may come as a surprise that Jesse Eisenberg has time to publish a book…
Questions Concerning Aristotle’s Tomb by Manash Bhattacharjee
An archaeologist in Greece unearths Aristotle’s Tomb; others dispute the evidence. If Aristotle’s ideas are consulted, the archaeologist Needs to…
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