A bi-monthly review of literature and the arts first published in 1732, The London Magazine consistently features the best original poetry, short fiction, cultural reviews and literary essays from established and emerging writers. Since a re-launch in 2009 it has been edited by Steven O’Brien, with Assistant Editor Sophie Bradford and Reviews Editor Matthew Scott.

This edition includes:

Poetry from Peter Abbs, Peter Ainsworth, Abu Al Salt Umayyah Ibn Abd Al Aziz, Normal Buller, Helen Calcutt, Grey Gowrie, John Kinsella, William Oxley, Ian Parks, Heenali Patel and Fiona Ritchie Walker

A short story, 'Death and the Maiden' by Mika Seifert

Essays including Julian Beecroft on Glenn Gould; Norman Buller on Charlotte Mew; Henry Eliot on The Canterbury Tales; Eamonn Gearon on Arabs; Ian Kelly on Samuel Foote; Jeffrey Meyers on Thomas Mann; Horatio Morpurgo on Samuel Butler; Matthew Scott on Isaac D'Israeli; and George Watson on wilful blindness

Reviews by Frank Armstrong, Lisa Dart, Jason Harding, Terry Kelly, Andrew Nash, Natalie Pollard, Marina Vaizey, John Weston, George Williamson and Paul Williamson.