Literature

When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of the changing seasons as well as the pandemic.

The Acts of Oblivion

Paul Batchelor

The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends — pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record — they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel.

After Dinner Conversation

Archived since June 2020

Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction.

Aliquot

John Clegg

The chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a part of a part of a larger whole.

ArabLit Quarterly

Archived since April 2019 Complete Archive

ArabLit Quarterly emerged in 2018 from the community around the ArabLit website and Bulaq podcast.

Arctic Elegies

Peter Davidson

This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences.

Banipal

Archived since February 1998 Complete Archive

Banipal, magazine of modern Arab literature, produces top quality translations of works by authors and poets at the cutting edge of the contemporary Arab literary scene. Each issue offers an unparalleled view of contemporary Arab literature across the region, taking the pulse of the region’s writers and poets with creative works, interviews, reviews and essays, all superbly illustrated.

The Book Collector

Archived since March 1947 Complete Archive

The Book Collector is a quarterly journal, in print and online, offering 192 pages per issue of wit, pleasure and knowledge on all aspects of the book through all ages.

Book of Days

Phoebe Power

Book of Days is a long poem recounting a journey along the popular pilgrimage route, or 'Camino' to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.

Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology

A. J. Lees

As a trainee hospital doctor, A.J. Lees was enthralled by his mentors: esteemed neurologists who in their work combined the precision of mathematicians with the solemnity of undertakers. Today their clinical methods honed at the bedside are in danger of extinction, replaced by a slavish adherence to algorithms, protocols, process and a worship of machines. In this series of brilliant autobiographical essays, Lees takes us on a grand tour of his neurological career giving the reader insight into the art of listening, observation and imagination that the best neurologists still rely on to heal minds and fix brains.

Brick, A Literary Journal

Archived since April 1977 Complete Archive

Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on.

Bride of Ice: Selected Poems

Archived since January 2023

Marina Tsvetaeva is among the great European poets of the twentieth century.

Butcher's Dozen

Thomas Kinsella

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet is proud to publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.

Carcanet Collection

The Carcanet Collection is now available for annual subscriptions. Subscribers will have access to 300 titles from the Carcanet list, including career-defining new work from the poets laureate of Jamaica (Mervyn Morris) and Wales (Gillian Clarke), a debut from rising star Joey Connolly, plus much-anticipated follow-up collections from Sinead Morrissey, Tara Bergin, Caroline Bird and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

The City

Stav Poleg

Stav Poleg's poems are about cities, what they contain and what they lack; and all cities are habitable and analogous, The City: London, New York, London, New York, Rome

the clarity of distant things

Jane Duran

Jane Duran's new book of two striking sequences takes readers into other worlds – 'gridlines', in which the life and paintings of Agnes Martin are interwoven, and 'miniatures of al-Andalus' inspired by the illuminated Cantigas de Santa María and the art and artefacts of Islamic Iberia.

Collected Poems by Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams

Collected Poems contains the previously published poetry of Rowan Williams, together with a significant body of new work. Also included are his celebrated translations from Welsh, German and Russian poetry.

The Crash Wake and other poems

Owen Lowery

The Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card 2021

In February 2020, ventilated tetraplegic poet Owen Lowery and his wife, Jayne, were travelling to Scotland when their vehicle aquaplaned, spun round on the motorway, hit a barrier, flipped over the barrier and rolled over several times, before coming to rest on its side in a field. Having barely survived, Lowery emerged into a world transformed by the coronavirus, one in which life and death had moved closer.

The Critic

Archived since November 2019 Complete Archive

The Critic is Britain’s new monthly magazine for politics, ideas, art, literature and much more. Co-edited by Michael Mosbacher and Christopher Montgomery, The Critic exists to push back against a self-regarding and dangerous consensus that finds critical voices troubling, triggering, insensitive and disrespectful. The point is not provocation or trolling. The point of honest criticism is to better approach truth, not deny its possibility.

Fence

Archived since April 1998 Complete Archive

Fence is a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. Fence is long-term committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing.

Field Requiem

Sheri Benning

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022

Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022

Forty Names

Parwana Fayyaz

A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021

A White Review Book of the Year 2021

Grand Larcenies

Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H.H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma.

Granta

Archived since September 1979 Complete Archive

Granta plays an integral part in the history of literature in the United Kingdom. The myriad of esteemed contributors to Granta over the years include Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Don DeLillo, offering a treasure trove of inspiration and commentary for students of literature.

Greengown: New and Selected Poems

David Kinloch

David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared, 'David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland... [his] readers must be prepared to take a long voyage through language, imagination, and space. While it isn't always easy, it's always worth the trip.'

Here on Earth

Jeffrey Wainwright

We are still here on earth. With a troubled sense of wonder, Jeffrey Wainwright's new book witnesses to that earth's ordinariness, profusion and mystery.

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems

Olive Senior

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of Jamaica, Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement.

Invitation to View

Peter Scupham

The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call', often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations. Some respond to fragments of the past, personal and historical, which haunt the present. All business is unfinished business: one can be caught out by a sudden phrase, or the look back of a landscape once seen sporting a different disguise.

The Jewish Quarterly

Archived since April 1953 Complete Archive

The Jewish Quarterly has cultivated literary journalism of the highest standard for almost 70 years. It is an independent publication that explores Jewish issues, and issues of humanity from a Jewish perspective.

Lanyard

Peter Sansom

'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of writers including Emily Brontë, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Fernando Pessoa and the New York Poets ... and several of Sansom's beloved contemporaries.

The Lascaux Notebooks

Jean-Luc Champerret

This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated – tentatively – into English for the first time.

Like a Tree, Walking

Vahni Capildeo

Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize

The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2021

Literary Review

Archived since October 1979 Complete Archive

Founded in Edinburgh in 1979, Literary Review is a trusted independent source for reviews of new books in history, biography, politics, travel and fiction. The monthly publication is well known for its amusing contributions and excellent editorial written by leading authors, journalists and academics, forming a gold mine for research in past and present literature.

Literature Collection

With the Literature Magazine Collection, give your users instant access to fifteen highly respected magazines.

The London Magazine

Archived since February 2010

The UK's oldest cultural journal featuring the best original poetry, short fiction, cultural reviews and literary essays since 1732. The London Magazine has been responsible for publishing some of the most significant literature in British history. From Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats to T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and Doris Lessing, today it remains at the forefront with the best contemporary writing.

Magma Poetry

Archived since March 1994 Complete Archive

Welcome to Magma. Published three times a year, Magma Poetry is a unique kind of poetry magazine. One of our big points of difference is we don’t have a single editor. We value a richer mix of voices, attitudes, ideas and opinions. That’s why we’re led by a group of people not an individual.

A Marginal Sea

Zoë Skoulding

A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Môn/Anglesey, which is both on the edge of Wales and in a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean – the island is imagined here as a site of archipelagic connection with other places and histories, where the spaces of dream and digital technology are interwoven with the everyday.

Mekong Review

Archived since November 2015 Complete Archive

Mekong Review is a quarterly English-language magazine of arts, literature, culture, politics, the environment and society in Asia, written by people from the region or those who know it well.

Midlife: Humanity’s Secret Weapon

Andrew Jamieson

Only two species of mammal have an extensive, post-reproductive life: killer whales – whose elders can sniff out food for their pods – and Homo sapiens. While the rationale behind the whale’s longevity seems clear, what is the point of ours? This question intrigued Carl Jung who observed that if a culture is to thrive, it must find a balance between the energy of the young and the experience of the old. But to obtain this equilibrium, we need to pass through the dreaded middle years.

Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times

Rod Mengham

Midnight in the Kant Hotel is an absorbing account of contemporary art, composed over twenty years. The essays revisit the same artists as they develop, following them in time, changing perspectives as he, and they, develop.

Modern Poetry in Translation

Archived since March 2004

Modern Poetry in Translation is a tri-annual poetry magazine edited by Sasha Dugdale that publishes poetry from all over the world in English translation. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort it has consistently published the very best of world poetry, and has introduced a number of famous poets and iconic translations to the English-speaking world.

More Sky

Joe Carrick-Varty

Archived since January 2023

More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.

Mslexia

Archived since March 1999

No other magazine provides Mslexia’s unique mix of debate and analysis, advice and inspiration; news, reviews, interviews; competitions, events, courses, grants. All served up with a challenging selection of new poetry and prose submitted by published and unpublished authors.

Naming of the Bones

John F. Deane

The poems in Naming of the Bones touch on Christian values and work towards a significant faith, at the same time focusing on the wonders of an evolving cosmos. The poems delight in the things of the earth, suggesting a secular Christianity.

New Welsh Reader

Archived since June 2011

For over twenty five years, New Welsh Review Ltd has been central to the Welsh literary scene in offering a vital outlet for the very best new fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry, a forum for critical debate and a rigorous and engaged reviewing culture.

Notting Hill Editions Collection

Founded in 2011, Notting Hill Editions is an independent British publisher of beautiful and collectable non-fiction books for the curious and erudite reader.

On the Way to Jerusalem Farm

Carola Luther

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022

PN Review

Archived since January 1973 Complete Archive

Keep up with the many worlds of poetry in this independent and always stimulating journal. For four decades PN Review has been a place to discover new poems in English and in translation as well as interviews, news, essays, reviews and reports from around the world.

Poetry Collection

This nine-magazine bundle offers institutions a plethora of poetry for users to explore.

Poetry London

Archived since September 1988 Complete Archive

Poetry London is an arts charity and international poetry magazine where acclaimed contemporary poets share pages with exciting new names. Published three times a year in February, May and September, each issue contains new poetry, incisive reviews and features. From modest beginnings in 1988, when it was a listings newsletter, Poetry London has developed into one of the UK's leading poetry magazines.

The Poetry Review

Archived since November 2013

The Poetry Review, published quarterly by The Poetry Society, is home to the world’s best contemporary poetry and writing about poetry. Since first publication in 1912, it has featured new poems, essays and reviews by internationally renowned and emerging poets, both Nobel Prize winners and newcomers.

Poetry Wales

Archived since July 2012

Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is a triannual magazine with an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. Emerging from a rich bilingual culture, Poetry Wales explores the diverse perspectives of Welsh poetry in English and its international relationships.

The Point

Archived since April 2009 Complete Archive

The Point is a triannual print and digital magazine of philosophical writing on contemporary life, politics and culture. At the center of each issue is a symposium that draws together various perspectives on a question of cultural importance

Poppy

Joseph Minden

In Poppy, Joseph Minden explores how the totems of remembering are always, also, sites of suppression.

Radical Normalisation

Celia A Sorhaindo

Celia A Sorhaindo's engrossing debut, Radical Normalisation, writes back from the margins, bringing readers to her Dominican home.

Reader's Digest UK

Archived since November 2012

The largest circulating magazine in the world, Reader’s Digest packs a lot into its compact pages. Bursting with stories, articles, advice, recipes, reviews, tips, jokes and anecdotes, Reader’s Digest aims to make your day a little bit more interesting, your year a little more informed and your life a little richer.

Records of an Incitement to Silence

Gregory Woods

Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022

Revista Banipal

Archived since March 2020 Complete Archive

La Revista Banipal de literatura árabe moderna, que publicó su primer número en marzo de 2020, ahora está disponible en formato digital. Los subscriptores a la edición digital tienen acceso ilimitado al archivo, que, como su pariente en inglés, abre una ventana amplia hacia el paisaje diverso de la literatura árabe contemporánea.

Savage Tales

Tara Bergin

Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.

Scale

Mina Gorji

At the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star, Scale explores the forms, conditions and frequencies of survival.

Selected Poems - Donald Davie

Donald Davie

This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades.

Siegfried Magazine

Archived since December 2021 Complete Archive

Siegfried is a quarterly publication delicately balanced between the past and the present. We republish fine writing and art, and champion new artists and writers whose work nods respectfully to the past as it reaches hopefully toward the future.

Slightly Foxed

Archived since March 2004 Complete Archive

Slightly Foxed is different – more like a well-read friend than a literary review. Each quarter it offers 96 pages of lively and unstuffy personal recommendations for books of lasting interest – books that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them.

SoFilm (FR)

Archived since June 2012 Complete Archive

So Film est un mensuel de cinéma (10 numéros par an) rempli d’entretiens longs, de portraits de personnalités hors-norme et d’enquêtes inédites, de Mickey Rourke à Kim Jong-il en passant par la scientologie à Hollywood. Nos grands reportages à l'étranger mettent en lumière des pratiques culturelles et économiques peu connues : Pakistan, Maroc, Nigéria, Mexique, Liban...

Some Integrity

Padraig Regan

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2022

Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021

Spillway: New and Selected Poems

Ian Pople

Ian Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and of home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss.

Stand Magazine

Archived since March 2016

Stand appears quarterly, featuring the best in new writing - poetry, fiction, and criticism.

Stand has always promoted work by new and established poets, short-story writers and critics, and continues to do so. Stand is an independent company and charity primarily based at the University of Leeds.

Striking a Match in a Storm

Andrew McNeillie

The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems – including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000).

Take us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems

Miles Burrows

An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021

The poetry of Miles Burrows was discovered in 1966 when Tom Maschler, already an editor at Cape, heard him give a public reading in London. Cape published him. After that, Burrows continued his life in many walks, most of them medical. Having studied Greats at Oxford, he determined to become an intellectual and learned to smoke black Russian cigarettes, reviewing occasionally for the New Statesman.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

A new translation of a seminal work by poet and acclaimed translator of W.G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Müller and Elfriede Jelinek.
In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s infamous protagonist sets off on a grand and noble quest to find meaning in a secular world and to live joyfully alongside the knowledge of death. In this new translation by Michael Hulse – the first in English by a poet – Zarathustra is revealed in all his bold and ironic splendour as a man who prizes self worth above all else as a moral code to live by. Radical, uncategorisable, contradictory and often humorous, Thus Spake Zarathustra is a grand celebration of human existence by one of the most influential thinkers of the past two centuries.

The Times Literary Supplement

Archived since January 2010

For over a century, the TLS has been the world's leading cultural magazine, with essays and reviews on the most significant books, ideas and art of our times. Every week you’ll find over 40 reviews and essays, from Shakespeare to Schopenhauer, popular theatre to political theory. According to Le Monde, the TLS “has no rivals”. According to Noam Chomsky, it is “provocative, stimulating, irritating, informative.”

Veii and other poems

Robert Wells

The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day when antiquity / – The place where all is over and done – / Took ineluctable hold of me?'

Virga

Togara Muzanenhamo

An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021

A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2021 Recommendation

Virga is the third book of poems by Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo, following on from his acclaimed collections Spirit Brides (2006) and Gumiguru (2014).

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Zest: Essays on the Art of Living

Iain Bamforth

Following on the explorations of culture and politics in his previous collection The Good European, the writings in Zest delve into less obvious but important aspects of social life—into manual work and 'dolce far niente', into ancient vernacular craft traditions and the data stockpiles of modernity.

Literature

100 Days

Gabriel Josipovici

The Acts of Oblivion

Paul Batchelor

After Dinner Conversation

Archived since June 2020

Aliquot

John Clegg

ArabLit Quarterly

Archived since April 2019 Complete Archive

Arctic Elegies

Peter Davidson

Banipal

Archived since February 1998 Complete Archive

The Book Collector

Archived since March 1947 Complete Archive

Book of Days

Phoebe Power

Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology

A. J. Lees

Brick, A Literary Journal

Archived since April 1977 Complete Archive

Bride of Ice: Selected Poems

Archived since January 2023

Butcher's Dozen

Thomas Kinsella

Carcanet Collection

The City

Stav Poleg

the clarity of distant things

Jane Duran

Collected Poems by Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams

The Crash Wake and other poems

Owen Lowery

The Critic

Archived since November 2019 Complete Archive

Fence

Archived since April 1998 Complete Archive

Field Requiem

Sheri Benning

Forty Names

Parwana Fayyaz

Grand Larcenies

Granta

Archived since September 1979 Complete Archive

Greengown: New and Selected Poems

David Kinloch

Here on Earth

Jeffrey Wainwright

Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems

Olive Senior

Invitation to View

Peter Scupham

The Jewish Quarterly

Archived since April 1953 Complete Archive

Lanyard

Peter Sansom

The Lascaux Notebooks

Jean-Luc Champerret

Like a Tree, Walking

Vahni Capildeo

Literary Review

Archived since October 1979 Complete Archive

Literature Collection

The London Magazine

Archived since February 2010

Magma Poetry

Archived since March 1994 Complete Archive

A Marginal Sea

Zoë Skoulding

Mekong Review

Archived since November 2015 Complete Archive

Midlife: Humanity’s Secret Weapon

Andrew Jamieson

Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times

Rod Mengham

Modern Poetry in Translation

Archived since March 2004