The Little Review #2
105 x 148 mm, 176 pages
Cambridge/York, UK
Triannual
First published 2025
Editor and Designer: Tristram Fane Saunders
‘The pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry’
The Little Review is a new, pocket-sized, triannual poetry magazine that proudly labels itself as a magazine for Readers, not Writers (capital R and W)—an explicit rebuke to poetry magazines more concerned with ‘Being In’ (who’s in it rather than what’s worth reading). Operating under a strict NB (No Bores) policy, every poetry submission must be accompanied by a book review, resulting in a lively, ecletic mix of written work.
Inside, this dry, sarcastic tone runs throughout: alongside aforementioned poems and reviews are short fiction, a delightful ‘Insolence & Triviality’ section and ‘scraps of news and mischief,’ all accompanied by eccentric black-and-white illustrations. This sophomore issue includes a conversation with Luke Kennard, who confesses his sins; a recollection by Ian Hamilton Finlay’s son on growing up in Little Sparta; and Shane McCrae considers John Berryman’s unpublished ‘Dream Songs’. Plus, new writing by Patricia Lockwood, Colm Tóibín, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Lucy Ellmann, Rishi Dastidar, Fran Lock, Camilla Grudova, Ian Duhig, and many more.