Archive | Rose and Alfred by Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau Rose and Alfred
The following piece is from the February 1969 edition of The London Magazine edited by Alan Ross. French poet, novelist, playwright...
Poetry | just dessert by Jack Houston
Jack Houstonjust dessert
it was then that
they reachedacross the
table & jammeda finger
into the firmswirl of
my custard& digit glistening
withdrewto lick
that indexslowly &
purposefullyclean
while I stareddown &
watchedtheir knuckle’s
circumferencesmoothly
ooze...
Fiction | Divination by Jen Calleja
Jen CallejaDivination
TW: The following piece contains themes that some readers might find upsetting.When the rain wept and wailed and hammered its wet fists against...
Poetry | Ice House Love by Natalie Shaw
Natalie ShawIce House Love
He rather liked the ice house
No, he was already a little in love
with the ice house
No, even before they had been...
Fiction | Under the Sun by Joe Gatt
Joe GattUnder the Sun9. qtâl
The ninth form is used to express the acquisition of some colour or quality, which may be either desirable or...
Essay | The Filth and the Fury – England’s Litter Problem...
Will StoneThe Filth and the Fury – England’s Litter Problem
In spring 2021, the national road network of England lies in a state of unprecedented...
Interview | Daisy Johnson at The London Book Fair
Daisy Johnson at The London Book Fair
After a two-year hiatus The London Book Fair returned earlier this month, reuniting the publishing community and sharing...
Poetry | Shop Local by Serena Alagappan
Serena AlagappanShop Local
the stone pine is local, but a blueberry
plant sprouts rampant: the wife takes
to it with shears; she doesn’t mind the bees.her...
Poetry | A Newer Wilderness by Nicola Healey
Nicola HealeyA Newer Wilderness
‘But Light a newer Wilderness / My Wilderness has made –’
– Emily Dickinson
There is a world
that must lie, always, just beneath
and...
Poetry | A Winter Morning by Dmitry Blizniuk
Dmitry Blizniuk (trans. Sergey Gerasimov)A Winter Morning
a winter morning
is like a crumpled cigarette
the tobacco is spilled out
the sidewalk is strewn
with sand the color...
Interview | Quentin Leclerc
Erik MartinyAn Interview with Quentin Leclerc
Quentin Leclerc is an up-and-coming author, one of the rising stars of Les Editions de L’Ogre, an indie French...
Archive | Data for a Spanish Publisher by Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy RichardsonData for a Spanish Publisher
Editor's NoteThis essay was sent to me on January 3, 1951, by the author of the twelve-part sequence novel...
Fiction | Pier by Fernando Sdrigotti
Fernando SdrigottiPier
It's four thirty but the sun still stings - it must be forty and it's so humid you could drown. We drag our...
Poetry | Cold Call by Joe Dunthorne
Joe DunthorneCold Call
It looks like you've recently been in an accident
involving an opaque body of water, is that right?
And you never received compensation, is...
Poetry | I dreamed I stopped traffic by Rishi Dastidar
Rishi DastidarI dreamed I stopped traffic
(for Lynsey, after Vance Packard)
not in my Maidenform bra more's the pity,but rather with my attempt to be...
Interview | Hélène Bonafous-Murat
Erik MartinyAn Interview with Hélène Bonafous-Murat
Hélène Bonafous-Murat writes historic suspense fiction for the French publisher Les Editions du Passage. A former academic specialized in...
Archive | Fiction | The Triumph of Balthazar by Gabriel García...
Gabriel García MárquezThe Triumph of Balthazar
One of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez reinvigorated Latin literature and popularised...
Review | Injustice and Violence by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey MeyersInjustice and Violence
A Set of Six, Joseph Conrad (Ed. Allan Simmons et al), Cambridge UP, 2021, 517 pp, £85.A Set of Six (1908) contains...
Interview | Julia Armfield on fiction writing, and the intersection of...
Tom ConaghanJulia Armfield on fiction writing, and the
intersection of reality and fantasy
Julia Armfield is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection salt...
Fiction | I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
Max Sydney SmithI, Nerd
The following text is excerpted from I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith, the latest in Open Pen's series of novelettes.
I, Nerd...
Essay | Waterbaby by Rachel Spence
Rachel SpenceWaterbaby
After my mother died, I started to swim in the river Teme. Down by the weir at Dinham Mill, sometimes alone, sometimes with...
Review | Too Much Too Young: Jolyon Fenwick at Shapero Rare...
ReviewToo Much Too Young: Jolyon Fenwick at
Shapero Rare Books
Taking centre stage at Jolyon Fenwick’s latest solo exhibition at Shapero Rare Books on Bond Street...
Poetry | Leonie Rushforth | Two poems from Deltas
Leonie RushforthAn Irishman flies in from New York to see Krapp’s Last Tape and falls asleep on someone’s shoulder
Up in the steep dark, body...