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The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social'Beirut' is one of two poems by Yanita Georgieva from our latest issue.
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialRead it in print alongside reviews of new work by Sigrid Nunez and a new biography of John Berger.
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social'The book's bathetic doubling between high and low, then and now, the world-historical and the fleeting, is remarkably well balanced, and recalls the linguistic ebullience and brilliance of James Joyce’s Ulysses.'
@lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social on Doom Painting: thelondonmagazine.org/article/revi...
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialOff the Page returns in just two weeks' time.
No phones.
No books.
Four poets reading entirely from memory.
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@gbclarkson.bsky.socialReposted by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialIn the Venn diagram of these beautiful Blue Diode pamphlets & The London Magazine, Flora Leask Arizpe is in both sets, having a fine poem ‘Nowhere Organs’, after HG Wells, in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social also... Looking forward to both pamphlets--Edinburgh is by Eimear Bush-- & TLM ... #PoetryPost
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialThere's only two weeks to go before submissions close for this year’s Short Story Prize.
The winning stories will be published in a future issue of The London Magazine.
Submit by midnight on Sunday 18th October: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
@somanybooks24.bsky.socialReposted by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social“Because so little is known about the real Wat Tyler, Blakemore constructs a fictional Wat, creating a backstory where none exists.”
In @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, Joseph Williams reviews A. K. Blakemore’s new novel, “Doom Painting” - thelondonmagazine.org/article/revi...
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social'He spends much of his letters from Iran begging his wife to forgive his various infidelities. What’s sometimes lost in this personal story is that he had arrived in Iran at an extraordinary time.'
Kasra Lang on Dylan Thomas in Iran: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialThis National Poetry Day, read one of two poems by Jane Hirshfield from our latest issue.
Order the October / November issue for more poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, William Cliff and others.
@gbclarkson.bsky.socialReposted by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialFor the new month, The London Magazine is out, in all its glory...🍁 In Dylan Thomas's birthday month, Kasra Lang writes on his time in Iran... Plus Rowland Bagnall on flowers in art and literature, Joey Connolly on why reality is screaming, & short fiction & poems (among which one of mine, happily!)
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialReviews:
@lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social on Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore (@grantabooks.bsky.social)
Aaron Labaree on John Berger (@penguinukbooks.bsky.social)
Lucy Thynne on It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez (@viragopress.bsky.social)
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialFeaturing:
Kasra Lang on Dylan Thomas’s time in Iran
Rowland Bagnall on flowers in art and literature
Joey Connolly on why reality is screaming
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialPoetry by Jane Hirshfield, @gbclarkson.bsky.social, @floraleask.bsky.social, Scott McKendry, Yanita Georgieva, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Charles Penty, Tom French, William Cliff and Jane Bonnyman.
Short fiction by Mavis Gallant.
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialOur October / November 2026 issue is out now.
Cover art by Auguste Herbin.
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@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social'It’s hard not to conclude that the fate of Sycamore Gap parallels that of post-1930s Britain more generally.'
Three years on from its felling, @alexniven.bsky.social on the Sycamore Gap Tree: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
@gbclarkson.bsky.socialReposted by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialVery happy to have a poem 'Dirndl' included here, alongside work from fellow Blue Diode pamphleteer, Flora Leask Arizpe ('Vagabonda')
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialOur October / November 2026 issue is now available for pre-order!
Cover art by Auguste Herbin.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/pre-...
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialOff the Page returns.
No phones.
No books.
Four poets reading entirely from memory.
Tickets here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/off-...
@gbclarkson.bsky.socialReposted by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.socialDelighted to have a new poem, 'Dirndl', in the next issue of The London Magazine, and looking forward very much to a Mavis Gallant story which I've heard is to be in the same issue... (All perhaps even sooner than advertised 😉) @jamiepcameron.bsky.social
