The London Magazine

Archived since February/ March 2010

90 issues

Modern Archive Bi-monthly

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

Cover art by Auguste Herbin.

Poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Geraldine Clarkson, Flora Leask Arizpe, Scott McKendry, Yanita Georgieva, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Charles Penty, Tom French, William Cliff and Jane Bonnyman.

Short fiction by Mavis Gallant.

Featuring:

Kasra Lang on Dylan Thomas’s time in Iran
Rowland Bagnall on flowers in art and literature
Joey Connolly on why reality is screaming

Reviews:

Joseph Williams on Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore
Aaron Labaree on John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton
Lucy Thynne on It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez

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