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 Patricia McCarthy, Sam Buchan-Watts, Brit Parks, Jaya Savige, Matthew Francis, Steven O’Brien, Maggie Butt, Martina Evans, Dominic Leonard, Chris McCabe, Frieda Hughes and John Kinsella.



Short Fiction by Jane Fraser and Emmanuelle Pagano.



Featuring Paul Gittins on W.H. Davies and Modern Poetry, Charles Jennings on Gothic London, Xenobe Purvis on the cultural and mythical role of ice, Ethan Darden on the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Erik Martiny on Marcel Proust and the Prix Goncourt, Tony Roberts on F.T. Prince, Justin Doherty on the Flower Men of Saudi Arabia, Jeffrey Meyers on Anton Chekhov and D. H. Lawrence.



Reviews by Imogen Woodberry, Stuart Walton, Tom Sutcliffe, Theophilus Kwek, Katie Da Cunha Lewin and Will Forrester.