Extract | The Leaflets by Ferdous Sadat
The following poem is taken from the anthology Tales of Two Londons: Stories from a Fractured City, ed. Claire Armitstead,…
Poetry | Trapeze by Layla Benitez-James
Layla Benitez-James Trapeze A rabbit might be taken away from a butcher by two different people and prepared separately; I…
Poetry | Coot by Iain Twiddy
Iain Twiddy Coot It didn’t need to be a big ripple nudging its reed-nest for the overstep to plop into…
Poetry | Ants on City Walls by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee Ants on City Walls . Think Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by…
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
Briony Willis WITCH WITCH, by Rebecca Tamás, Penned in the Margins, pp. 119, £9.99. (paperback) In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca…
Review | The Neighbourhood by Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s fourth chapbook, The Neighbourhood, begins with a winding dotted line that travels from the first to the second…
Poetry | Joan Howson’s Cottage by Michael Henry
Michael Henry Joan Howson’s Cottage This is Black Rock Sands that …………my parents walked to from their honeymoon hideaway. Those…
News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s Forest + Interview
The People’s Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest’s programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this…
Review | Leminscate by Chris Viner
Leminscate, Chris Viner, Unsolicited Press, 2017, pp. 72 The 6th isn’t busy. Six days since the attack And inside the…
Interview | Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a poet, educator, curator, editor and investigator of missing sounds, who is a founding member of Chill Pill as…
Poetry | Hidden Time by Alan Zhukovski
They live inside the warmth of typing fingers, inside the ghostly glass of hidden years you wanted to implant inside…
Poetry | Michael O’Neill | A Tribute
Michael O’Neill (1953-2018) was a very gifted poet and a brilliant literary critic, who was Professor of English at the…
Review | Xeixa: Fourteen Catalan Poets
Xeixa: Fourteen Catalan Poets Tupelo Press, 2018, edited by Marlon L. Fick and Francisca Esteve The news in recent months…
Review | Rough Trade Books | Series 3
The recently-launched Rough Trade Books imprint has been releasing pamphlets at a prolific rate since the summer of last year,…
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can…
Poetry | A Series of Ekphrastic Poems on Eileen Agar’s Marine Object by Suzannah V. Evans
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. The following series of poems was inspired by a visit to…
Flash Fiction | Never Fall For That by Rebecca Lilly
“Clarify your intent,” — Lama Chopra, our meditation teacher, rang the bell for us to sit — “the Reaper was…
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 4 | A Discovery of Ancient Literature
We were recently contacted by Reverend Christian Mitchell of the church of Heathfield in rural Sussex, who had made a…
Archive | Philip Larkin | Two Poems: To The Sea, Annus Mirabilis
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a prolific poet and writer of essays, criticism and reviews during the twentieth century. Described as…
Poetry | Woman by Manash Bhattacharjee
Woman “It’s easy, impossible, hard, worth trying.” ~ Wislawa Szymborska, “Portrait of a Woman” (1976) She is intimately attached To…
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2018 – Winners Announced!
A huge thanks to everyone who entered this year’s poetry prize! We had so many high quality entries this year…
Interview | Momtaza Mehri — Young People’s Laureate for London
Yesterday we spoke to artist and poet Momtaza Mehri, who has recently been announced as Young People’s Laureate for London, who will take over from poet and musician Caleb Femi in the role which was launched by Spread The Word Last Year.
Archive | Poetry | The Wiper by Louis MacNeice
First published in the May 1960 issue of The London Magazine (Volume 7, No. 5).
Through purblind night the wiper
Reaps a swathe of water
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