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

The London Magazine’s October/November 2021 edition features Patrick Cash on Shakespeare and Company, Jeffrey Meyers on George Orwell in Burma, Neil Powell on Rupert Croft-Cooke, Niall McDevitt on William Blake and Anthony Head on Ethel Mannin.
Poetry by Raymond Antrobus, Anthony Anaxagorou, Hollie McNish, Ian Duhig, Emily Cooper, Leo Boix, Suna Afshan, Kaleem Hawa, Alexandra Strnad, Elinor Clark and Angela Kirby. Short Fiction by Ben Pester, Martha Sprackland, David Hering and Fernando Sdrigotti.
Reviews by John Phipps, Stuart Walton, Ian Brinton, Daniel Marc Janes and Andrew Lambirth.