Journeying Souls
The Verandah Poems, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Selected Poems, Michael Symmons Roberts, Cape 2016, £14…
2.6 million hearts
Wars do not have holidays (employers claim they are self-employed) Their job has to be fulfilled, At any cost,…
They Don’t Make Gods For Non-Believers
Poetry Prize 2016 judges Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Perry on ‘They Don’t Make Gods For Non-Believers’: We were instantly…
The Truth About Figs
Poetry Prize 2016 judges Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Perry on ‘The Truth About Figs’: It would be easy to…
Botticelli’s Annunciation
Gabriel coming down the mountain, Gabriel with his face like wax. Sound of his wings, what does he bring?…
Barn Owls in Suffolk
I watch them for a long while, the pair rising and courting the field in daylight, the strange…
Occupation
So, I turned to lens cutting for a living. Corrective work, in a time of short- sightedness. ————–An astigmatic…
On the Politics and Poetics of Darjeeling
No milk or lemon, ——love black tea from Amman, ——India. At sea- level, ragged ——monsoons ghost inland, ——millennium…
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…
The New Tenants
When we go the ivy will slam a fist through the double glazing, push its fingers in between the…
Aunt Amy’s Parasol
For such a sombre woman it strikes an unexpected note of frivolity, with those flamboyant stripes of pink, white,…
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