The Little Review #4
105 x 148 mm, 176 pages
Cambridge/York, UK
Triannual
First published in 2025
Editor and design: 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, eclectic mix of written work.
This edition for Autumn 2026 opens with a wry moment of self congratulation—‘The ‘big oh-four’ is a milestone for any magazine’—setting the nostalgic tone of this issue. Inside, readers can expect the aforementioned poetry and reviews alongside short fiction. Elsewhere, meet Geordie band Knats, a Northern outlier of a London–centric jazz poetry scene, and revisit the vantage points frequented by French novelist George Perec in his book ‘An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris’.
Plus, new writing by the likes of Tom Bailey, Fiona Benson, Leo Boix, Geraldine Clarkson, Frankie Gardner, Michael Grieve, Rachel Hadas, Dane Holt, Naomi Kanakia, Sylvia Legris, Ange Mlinko, Devki Panchmatia, Verity Spott, James Womack, and Maria Zoccola.