Literature

ArabLit Quarterly

Archived since April 2019 Complete Archive

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

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.

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.

Carcanet Collection

Archived since January 1993

The Carcanet Collection is now available for annual subscriptions. Subscribers will have access to over 240 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.

Carcanet Schools Collection

Archived since April 2014

The Carcanet Schools Collection is now available to institutions, providing access to 30 selected titles from the Carcanet list

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.

The Critic

Archived since November 2019

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

Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm, even as the speaker suffers, too.

Forty Names

Parwana Fayyaz

In this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present – their endurance and achievements, told from their points of view. John McAuliffe writes of the 'remarkable litanies, which haunt her poems' occasions' and the title poem, with which she won the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, is such a litany, conjuring and commemorating.

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.

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.

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

Archived since March 1947

With the Literature Magazine Collection, give your users instant access to fourteen 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.

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.

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.

Mslexia

Archived since October 2007

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.

Music & Literature

Archived since October 2013

Music & Literature is a premiere magazine for readers seeking broader appreciation of the global arts scene — and in particular, introductions to outstanding individual artists who have not yet garnered the audience they deserve in the English-speaking world.

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.

On the Way to Jerusalem Farm

Carola Luther

Carola Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it?

At the centre of the collection are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool', 'Birthday at Emily Court' and 'The Escape'.

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.

Poems and Satires

Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world: skyscrapers, and the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay.

Poetry Collection

Archived since January 1973

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

Poetry London

Archived since September 1996 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.

Records of an Incitement to Silence

Gregory Woods

Gregory Woods is the leading British critic and historian of gay literature. He has published five previous Carcanet poetry collections, the first being We Have The Melon (1992). Ten years in the making, Records of an Incitement to Silence revisits many of the original themes, but here Woods brings them closer to the endgame.

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.

Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal

Archived since January 2012 Complete Archive

Over the past decade, Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal / فَمْ: مجلة بيروت الأدبية والفنية has established itself as a space for emerging and established writers and artists with a connection to Lebanon and the Arab world.

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...

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.

Take us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems

Miles Burrows

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.

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

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).

The Writer

Archived since January 2019

Founded in 1887, The Writer is one of the nation’s oldest magazines focusing on the craft of writing. If you’re passionate about books, authors, and writing, you’ll find everything you need within our pages 12 times a year.