Spotlight V: Journals Edition | LE GUN / Hotel
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
Spotlight IV: Penned in the Margins
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and…
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…
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