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'Would poetry be more effective – that is, interest more people more deeply – if it were more directly concerned with the issues of our time?'
@joriegraham.bsky.social, Don Paterson, @aestallings.bsky.social and more have their say in our 2026 Survey of Poets.
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Our June / July 2026 issue is out now!
Cover image and artwork by Heidi Lanino.
Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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June / July 2026
Our June / July 2026 issue is now available for pre-order!
Cover image and artwork by Heidi Lanino.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/pre-...
As well as receiving prizes of £1000, £600 and £400, the winners are to be published in the upcoming June / July 2026 issue of The London Magazine.
To ensure you get a copy before it sells out, subscribe here: thelondonmagazine.org/subscription/
Order our June / July 2026 issue to read the survey in print, alongside new work by Nick Laird, Lawrence Osborne, Campbell McGrath and more: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
'Literature is an awareness of the world. It isn’t an instrument with which to change it.'
From 1976, an interview with Italian critic and journalist Geno Pampaloni: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-a-cr...
'The loneliness I felt, sitting at that table eating my sandwich, was breathtaking. It was a feeling I didn’t know I was capable of summoning.'
New short fiction by Sam Corbett: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-most...
'Reading ‘Of Poor B.B.’, one catches a glimpse of a road English-language poetry did not take – one which is terser, less consoling, more disagreeable and more honest.'
Luke Dunne on Bertolt Brecht's poetry: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-tap-da...
After selecting a shortlist of eight poems from thousands of entries, we are thrilled to announce the winners of this year's Poetry Prize, with first place going to Nina Reljić for her poem ‘Helen When Asked’.
Read more about the winners and judges here: thelondonmagazine.org/nina-reljic-...
The London Magazine speaks to Jorie Graham, Don Paterson, A. E. Stallings and more about the state of poetry and poets today.
