Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth…
Bright Celestial Objects by Rebecca Goss
After Alison Watt, ‘Venus’ (2015) Their backs against the grass, she felt a pull, as if the leaves on the…
Madness by Patrick Cash
There’s a stream by the Avon ward Where I stand to watch the water flow And unwind the whirlpools of…
Puddocks by John Greening
for SECH Clare would have called these five red kites circling above dead or stag’s-headed oaks like iambs broken…
Hammer and Tongue Poetry Slam Finals at the Royal Albert Hall
I had watched countless videos on YouTube, attended other poetry slams and kept abreast of the ‘scene’ on social media,…
Chan by Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry Chan (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, Chick (Bloodaxe,…
That Boy by Robert Nazarene
He was patient as a dead bird. He perched on the ledge of bottom and rocked. He was the…
Two more from ‘Mother Goose’ by Bernard Gutteridge
Two fairytale poems from ‘Mother Goose’ by Bernard Gutteridge with a little twist, first published in The London Magazine in…
Ghost Story by J.G. Warry
For close on forty years I have pursued The ghost of my personality Down endless corridors of a castle Unsuccessfully.…
Interview with Caleb Femi – Young People’s Laureate for London
Caleb Femi, a 26 year old teacher and poet from Peckham, has been chosen to be the new Young People’s…
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…
The Lake by Ted Hughes
Better disguised than the leaf-insect, A sort of subtler armadillo, The lake turns with me as I walk. Snuffles at…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2016 | Winners
Thank you so much to everyone who entered The London Magazine‘s Poetry Prize 2016. The standard of entries was extremely…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
Real Life by Suzannah Evans
The producers decided things were getting slow so I caught you with Arabella at the charity regatta, delivered a flute…
His Bottom Lip by Rachel Long
His Bottom Lip Clitoral, like finding a small, hidden part of myself in someone else. Nerve-wet, fleshy – for a…
Two Wives and a Widow by Angela Carter
From The London Magazine March 1966 Two Wives and a Widow A modern version from the Middle Scots of William…
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