The London Magazine, June/July 2025
150 x 215 mm, 98 pages
London, UK
Six times a year since 1954
Editor: Steven O’Brien
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 (arguably the first 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 TLM Poetry Prize 2025 Winners: Kevin Graham, Dean Browne and Batool Abu Akleen, as well as Michaela Coplen, Mai Serhan, Edward Limb, Serena Alagappan, Victoria Spires, Luke Dunne and Mark Fiddes.
Plus short fiction by Carlos Paguada, Harriet Armstrong and Michael Amherst, David Collard on the horrors of ‘Poet Voice,’ Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein, and Connor Harrison on the directionless optimism of ‘Orbital’.
Cover: ‘Opera House’ by Jack McGarrity