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

Our August/September 2020 issue features Leaf Arbuthnot on Loneliness, Josh McLoughlin on Crisis, Jeffrey Meyers on Ivan Moffat, and Miranda Emmerson on My London; alongside Rebecca Farmer on Louis MacNeice, Joanna Hershon on Solar Eclipses, and Tony Roberts on Erich Remarque.

It also includes short fiction by Jelle Cauwenberghs, Clare Fisher, Venetia Welby, Jess Arndt and Daniel Fraser.

Poetry by Roger Robinson, Ella Frears, Caleb Femi, Mona Arshi, Stephanie Norgate, Holly Howitt, Angela Kirby, Richard Aronowitz, Kieron Winn and Yogesh Patel. As well as reviews by Theophilus Kwek, Sam Buchan-Watts, Lydia Wilson, Katie da Kunha Lewin and Ellen Jones.