The London Magazine

02/04/2024

Our April/May 2024 issue is OUT NOW 🍊

Cover image by Holly Pollard

Poetry by Rachel Bower, George Murray, Niall Campbell, Matthew Francis, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Mary Noonan, Ivars Šteinbergs, Will Pittam, John Kinsella, Hugh Dunkerley, Gabrielle Tse, Venessa Lampert, Pip Osmund-Williams and Sasja Janssen

Short Fiction by Sheila Armstrong, Ed Cottrell, Richie Jones and Kieran Wyatt

Featuring: Charlotte Stroud on The Secrets of the Countryside, Amy K Grandvoinet on de Chirico’s Biscuit-Scapes, Konrad Muller on John Ruskin and the Overland Track, Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri on Lord Byron’s Liberalism

Reviews by Lucy Thynne, Patrick Cash, Rowland Bagnall, Hallam Bullock, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou and Magnus Rena

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28/03/2024

'All at once, it felt nihilistic and misguided. I had been on this extended fast, but it was devoted to absent men and not any real god. As such, there had been no revelation or resolution, no peace.'

Christiana Spens on Lent.

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'All at once, it felt nihilistic and misguided. I had been on this extended fast, but it was devoted to absent men and not any real god. As such, there had been no revelation or resolution, no peace.' Christiana Spens on Lent.

22/03/2024

'She was so very, very fortunate, yes, she was.'

New fiction by Jane Messer.

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'She was so very, very fortunate, yes, she was.' New fiction by Jane Messer.

22/03/2024

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April/May 2024

21/03/2024

'For several long minutes, nothing changed. We seemed to be opposite and equal forces.'

New fiction by Laura Shaine Cunningham.

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'For several long minutes, nothing changed. We seemed to be opposite and equal forces.' New fiction by Laura Shaine Cunningham.

15/03/2024

'They were lying in his bed, intertwined, when Sylvi ran her fingers along his chest tattoos, and asked how many he had. In return, he asked for her number. But Sylvi didn’t have any tattoos.'

New fiction by Serena Coady.

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'They were lying in his bed, intertwined, when Sylvi ran her fingers along his chest tattoos, and asked how many he had. In return, he asked for her number. But Sylvi didn’t have any tattoos.' New fiction by Serena Coady.

12/03/2024

'In other words, there is a love that waits, and it has been and is being published in Latvia – as well as elsewhere – right now, before our eyes.'

Ivars Šteinbergs on Latvian poetry, from our SOLD OUT February/March issue.

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'In other words, there is a love that waits, and it has been and is being published in Latvia – as well as elsewhere – right now, before our eyes.' Ivars Šteinbergs on Latvian poetry.

29/02/2024

'Then as I was writing I was drawing this Exodus-like pillar of cloud, this memory of my brother, out of the dreamscape, out of the fog of the morning.'

Thomas Gardner on the new Daunt Books edition of his new collection, Poverty Creek Journal.

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'Then as I was writing I was drawing this Exodus-like pillar of cloud, this memory of my brother, out of the dreamscape, out of the fog of the morning.' Thomas Gardner on the new Daunt Books edition of his collection, Poverty Creek Journal.

20/02/2024

'Although choreographic notation systems exist, they are rarely readable to the uninitiated, and by dint of their static nature, cannot hope to express the full verve of a dance.'

Esmee Wright on Bronislava Nijinska.

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'Both contemporary pieces seek to build on this revolutionary choreography rather than imitate it perfectly, yet both acknowledge that Nijinska’s work marked key developments in the world of choreography, bridging the gap between one century and the next in the world of classical dance. So how did...

09/02/2024

'You are told you are lucky, and that luck is why you are the only child in the family who gets an education. You have a natural sense for numbers, and feel that luck is a question of numbers.'

New fiction by Lilia Salammbô Fetini.

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Lilia Salammbô Fetini Baa . . You are born in a field. You grow up in poverty. You are told you are lucky, and that luck is why you are the only child in the family who gets an education. You have a natural sense for numbers, and feel that luck is a question of...

07/02/2024

'The world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation.'

From Pacifica Goddard's essay on Hetch Hetchy, moving forward and finding the beauty in that process.

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Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy & The Greatest Good

05/02/2024

From our February/March 2024 issue, Hugh Foley reviews The Lights and Chariot.

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Hugh Foley Light Verse The Lights, Ben Lerner, Granta Books, 2023, pp.128, £12.99 Chariot, Timothy Donnelly, Wave Books, 2023, pp.112, £15.00 . . . One of the world’s richest and least thoughtful men often says that he hopes to use his obscene wealth to ‘extend the light of consciousness to th...

25/01/2024

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Cover image by Martin Lau

Poetry by Angela Kirby, Fiona Sampson, Efe Duyan, Michael Bazzett, Brett Shaw, Ali Lewis, Geoffrey Brock, Lucy Holme, Niamh Twomey, Sylee Gore, David Harsent, Serena Alagappan and Henriks Eliass Zēgners

Short Fiction by Hadley Franklin, Richard Smyth, Jimin Kang, Gary Grace and Gráinne O’Hare

Featuring: Ivars Šteinbergs on Latvia’s Poetry Scene, Katie Tobin on Fashion and the Bloomsbury Group, Pacifica Goddard on Hetch Hetchy, Yvonne Reddick on Winter Hill

Reviews by Nicola Healey, Patrick Cash, Hugh Foley and Guy Stagg

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23/01/2024

'With all the pieces I make, it’s about a conversation between what’s there and what isn’t there.'

We spoke to Turner prize-winner Lubaina Himid about her show, Lost Threads, currently showing at the Holburne Museum in Bath.

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Katie Tobin How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past Lost Threads at The Holburne Museum, 19 January – 21 April 2024. . . . Firstly, I’d just like to chat with you a little bit about how the inspiration for Lost Threads came about. . Lost Threads was commissioned in th...

22/01/2024

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February/March 2024