The UK's oldest cultural journal featuring the best original poetry, short fiction, cultural reviews and literary essays since 1732.

The London Magazine has been responsible for publishing some of the most significant literature in British history. From Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats to T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and Doris Lessing, today it remains at the forefront with the best contemporary writing. Its writers on art have included John Richardson, Alan Bowness, Edward Lucie-Smith and Mel Gooding and it has featured original work by Graham Sutherland, Prunella Clough, Maggie Hambling and Frank Auerbach.

Latest issue

Poetry by Paula Bohince, Moniza Alvi, Hugh Dunkerley,
Róisín Tierney, Sharon Black, Maggie Butt, Frieda Hughes,
John Kinsella, Stanley Moss, Michael Spinks, Simon Perchik
and Hilary O’Sullivan
Short Fiction by William Bedford and Peter Robinson
Featuring:
Nicholas Summerfield on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Peter Slater on ‘My London’
David Burke on Melita Norwood, the Russian ‘granny spy’
Ella Windsor on the delights of Mexican Gastronomy
Ian Stone on Walter Hervey, the thirteenth-century Mayor of London
Jeffrey Meyers on Joseph Conrad’s judgement of Stevenson and Crane
Emily Priest on Anime
Paul Gittins on ‘Selling Poetry’
Reviews by Andrew Lambirth, Houman Barekat, Will Stone,
Emma Crichton-Miller, Suzi Feay and André van Loon