aug-sept-2025
A succession of six publications have held the title The London Magazine dating back to 1732, making it England's oldest literary periodical. Originally founded to rival the Gentleman's Magazine, its pages have boasted the likes of Keats, Shelley, T.S. Elliot et al along the way. Its current iteration—‘eclectic in taste, promiscuously interested and unapologetically intelligent’—publishes the best writing from London and beyond, split into fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. This issue includes poetry by John Burnside, Forester McClatchey, Hywel John, Tim Tim Cheng, Cleo Henry, Martina Evans, Olive Franklin, Iona Carmine Roisin, Jacob Burgess Rollo, Topher Allen and Sylvie Jane Lewis. Short fiction by Viridiana Carrillo (tr. Miriam Tobin), James Stanfield and Grace Murray. Plus Rob Doyle on Islamic mysticism in Andalusia, Aidan Harte on sculpting Gerry Adams and Konrad Muller on Miguel Torga and ‘the natural drama of vintage’. Cover: ‘Bather in the Still Lake’ by Elizabeth Dimitroff thelondonmagazine.org
