Interview | Robert Lundquist: Never say sorry or common words again
My Father was a boxer. He taught me how to box when I was nine. This commonality, and the need to impress him, informed a great deal. When Charles Bukowski at an event asked me to ‘take it outside’ over a girl, I said okay. I was 21 and shy. Everyone at the party kept telling him [...]
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 60s, when young writers...
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 60s, when young writers...
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, Arcadia Books, London, 2019.
Ferdous...
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 mean, the structural integrity of my...
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 the up-plump of the breast,
and the coot to...
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca Tamás explores the triumphs and oppression, the strengths and weaknesses, the power and the fears that generations of...
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 page. The image continues...
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 are the footprints they left
............on the sand.
That is the...
News | Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019 — The People’s...
The People's Forest — a literary strand to Waltham Forest's programme as the first ever London Borough of Culture this year — has recently...
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 Monoprix
The aisles of life still reel...
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 well as the Keats...
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 this week.
The doors and windows to...
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 University of Durham, where...
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 has been splashed with images of...
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, bringing us highly collectable...
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 the experience of cancer...
Poetry | A Series of Ekphrastic Poems on Eileen Agar’s Marine...
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. The following series of poems was inspired by a visit to the exhibition Virginia Woolf:...
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 once an old friend."
My...
The London Magazine Podcast | Episode 4 | A Discovery of...
We were recently contacted by Reverend Christian Mitchell of the church of Heathfield in rural Sussex, who had made a remarkable discovery. In one...
Archive | Philip Larkin | Two Poems: To The Sea, Annus...
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was a prolific poet and writer of essays, criticism and reviews during the twentieth century. Described as ‘England’s other Poet Laureate’,...
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 night and day.
Only...
Spotlight II: Dostoyevsky Wannabe
The London Magazine has long been a champion of emerging writers and independent publishers, stretching back to the 1950s and 60s, when young writers...
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 which resulted in a...