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 Michael O’Neill, Frieda Hughes, John Kinsella,
Iain Twiddy, Martina Evans, Kieron Winn, Maggie Butt,
Peter Robinson, Hélène Cardona, José Manuel Cardona,
Patricia McCarthy, Moniza Alvi and Greta Bellamacina
Short Fiction by Theo Greenblatt
Featuring:
Will Stone on Selling Van Gogh
Philip Hall on Doris Lessing
Tony Roberts on William Empson and America
Will Kitson on Kazuo Ishiguro
Frank Armstrong on Literary Voodoo in Czarist Russia
Ted Hodgkinson on The Golden Notebook and Things Fall Apart
Robert Wilton on Musine Kokalari and the Albanian Silence
Jordan Osborne on William Burroughs
Konrad Muller on Pinot Noir
Linda Wilkinson on ‘My London’
Reviews by Declan Ryan, Ian Brinton, Jeffrey Meyers,
Stuart Walton, Chris Townsend and Steven Matthews