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 August/September 2021 edition features Rowena Macdonald on being a Mail Woman, Horatio Morpurgo on Ninon de l’Enclos and Christiana Spens on Caroline Coon. Joanna Walsh writes on Girling and Jess Payn on Spoons.

Poetry by Ella Frears, Maya C. Popa, Charlie Baylis, Chris Emery, Hannah Hodgson, Genevieve Carver, Penny Boxall, Ronan Hyacinthe, Hannah Copley, Brit Parks, Genevieve Stevens and Sarah Corbett. Short Fiction by Livia Franchini, Francesca Reece, Martha J. Whatley and Jenah Shaw.

Reviews by Andrew Lambirth, Madeleine Feeny, Chloё Ashby, Kate Simpson, Alannah Jones and Stuart Walton.