Inside this issue, exclusive work from:
Edward Lucie-Smith – writing on Young British Artists and in praise of Outsider artist Joe Machine.
Michael Binyon – Leader writer for The Times writes an essay on the Last Organ Maker of Bethnal Green.
Robert Hosmer – on ‘A Landscape of Letters and Life’ on Muriel Spark revealing archive material and intimate correspondences with other literary figures.
Featured in this issue:
Fiction
Short stories by American writer Carol Bergman and Sophie Hampton – winner of The London Magazine Short Story Competition.
Poetry
by Mimi Khalvati, Terry Jones, Michael O’Neill, David Cooke, Eoghan Walls, Peter Ainsworth, Shirin Razavian, Heather Wells and Michael Hulse.
Essays
Robert Hosmer Spark, A Landscape of Letters and Life
Michael Binyon, The Last Organ Maker of Bethnal Green
Alan Blackwood, Entente Cordiale
Peter Abbs, Carl Jung: The Burden of the Prophet
Tony Roberts, Loving Turgenev
Reviews
Malise Ruthven, Ancient Flints or Tinned Food
Geoffrey Heptonstall, Time of Useful Consciousness
Marina Vaizey, Manet and Picasso
Edward Lucie-Smith, A British Original
Grey Gowrie, Gordon Baldwin
Matthew Sperling, Gunslinger Redux
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. Its writers on art have included John Richardson, Alan Bowness, Edward Lucie-Smith and Mel Gooding and it has featured original work by Graham Sutherland, Prunella Clough, Maggie Hambling and Frank Auerbach.