Interview | Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win
Jamie Cameron Libation’s legacy: Malika Booker on her Forward Prize win . Malika Booker won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written, for ‘Libation’ Congratulations Malika on winning the...
View ArticleFiction | Moon Street by Laura-Blaise McDowell
Laura-Blaise McDowell Moon Street . They sit on the patio, sipping their wine in the early evening. . ‘He’s a composer, Erin said.’ . On the other side of the table, Mel nods his head, his steady...
View ArticleEssay | Pareidolia by Tallulah Griffith
Tallulah Griffith Pareidolia . . . There exists, for each of us, a kind of shape we see repeated. A shard-like template, difficult to grasp, its contours easily recognised and quick to cut the skin,...
View ArticleInterview | A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood...
Katie Tobin A labour of love: how Lynne Segal’s new book explores motherhood and radical care . Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, Lynne Segal, Verso, pp. 256, £17.99. . . . Your book, Lean On Me,...
View ArticleFiction | Evil Eye by Elmos Andrews
Elmos Andrews Evil Eye . . Thalia looked at me, askew. It was as if she hadn’t understood me. But maybe, I realised, she actually hadn’t. I immediately became unsure of the word I had used, a word I...
View ArticlePoetry | French Lessons by Jessa Brown
Jessa Brown French Lessons . . some of our best talks were in French, imperfect [,] tense, and almost crying with the strain: how best to really name the way I couldn’t say how I felt, coming close to...
View ArticlePoetry | Message by Imogen Wade
Imogen Wade Message . . Sometimes we are insects, communicating with each other from opposite ends of a vast yellow field— rubbing our wings, tapping our feet, vibrating in the air. I picture us as...
View ArticleFiction | Noah’s Wife by Katherine Robinson
Katherine Robinson Noah’s Wife . . The day of the flood, wind roared in, carrying the cold of the sea. The metallic scent of melting snow filled the air, and meltwater floated across old snow. It was...
View ArticlePoetry | Dansette by Nicky Kippax
. Nicky Kippax Dansette . Grandad’s pride and joy, black kit set square in a red box – glossy handle – needle jumping out and into place as you flip the lid. . Shirley Bassey on repeat – bass stripped...
View ArticleInterview | T. S. Eliot Prize nominee Kit Fan on elegy, nostalgia and poetry...
Joana Urtasun T. S. Eliot Prize nominee Kit Fan on elegy, nostalgia and poetry versus prose . The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan, Carcanet, pp. 96, £12.99. . . . The Ink Cloud Reader is brimming with...
View ArticleEssay | The Draft of the Medusa by Andrew Gallix [Extract]
Andrew Gallix The Draft of the Medusa . From Unwords by Andrew Gallix published by Dodo Ink, out 18th January 2024. . . (Preface as over explanation, as metabombast.) – Eley Williams, The Liar’s...
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Review | The Mother & the Weaver by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou The Mother & the Weaver The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection at the Foundling Museum, 22 September 2023 – 18 February 2024. . . . I keep...
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Interview | How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past
Katie Tobin How Lubaina Himid’s Lost Threads confronts Bath’s colonial past Lost Threads at The Holburne Museum, 19 January – 21 April 2024. . . . Firstly, I’d just like to chat with you a little bit...
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Review | Diana Copperwhite: ONOMATOPEIA by Adelaide Ng
The following piece is published as part of our TLM Young Writers series, a dedicated section of The London Magazine‘s website which showcases the work of exceptional young talent aged between 13-21,...
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Interview | Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks...
Martin Lau, winner of TLM Cover Competition 2023, talks alteration, identity, and multicultural London . . . In your artistic practice, you use digital montage techniques and incorporate your own...
View ArticleReview | Intellectual Property by Katrina Nzegwu
Katrina Nzegwu Intellectual Property Intellectual Property, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, (Goldsmiths CCA, 2024), pp. 47, £6 . . . “What is the difference between truth and experience?” A hushed audience in...
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Review | Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto by Adelaide Ng
The following piece is published as part of our TLM Young Writers series, a dedicated section of The London Magazine‘s website which showcases the work of exceptional young talent aged between 13-21,...
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Review | Robert Mapplethorpe: SUBJECT OBJECT IMAGE by Adelaide Ng
The following piece is published as part of our TLM Young Writers series, a dedicated section of The London Magazine‘s website which showcases the work of exceptional young talent aged between 13-21,...
View ArticleFiction | People Who Can Love by Sarah Turner
Sarah Turner People Who Can Love I’d heard about the surgery even before Cathy reminded me of it. They’d discussed it on the radio one morning, and I’d half listened as I was making coffee, but it...
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Interview | Self Portraits of Unconditional Love in David Tucker: Dad
Self Portraits of Unconditional Love in David Tucker: Dad David Tucker: Dad at Gallery 46, 3 – 22 February 2024. . . . Most people are likely to be touched by Alzheimer’s at some point in their lives,...
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