Poetry magazines

Irish Pages is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Editor: Chris Agee.

Lighthouse is a literary journal dedicated to publishing new writing and championing new writers. Editor: Julia Webb.

Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction. Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields. Editor: Nancy Sladek.

The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today, the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing, and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape. Editor: Steven O’Brien.

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail.

Founded in 2008, Long Poem Magazine is published bi-annually, and aims to represent a diverse range of poets and poetic styles. Editors: Linda Black and Claire Crowther.

Every issue of Magma has a different editor, either members of their board or a prominent poet acting as a guest editor. Magma aim to promote the very best in contemporary poetry which may come from previously unpublished or emerging poets or the more established.

Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort, MPT brings the best new translations, essays and reviews that address such characteristic signs of our times as exile, the movement of peoples, the search for asylum, and the speaking of languages outside their native home.

MQB is a tri-annual magazine of poetry, prose and reviews and is a hardcopy only publication. It has a taste for workplace poems, black humour and work which challenges all forms of conformism. Editors: Alan Dent and Nancy Frost

Mslexia is committed to helping women writers progress and succeed, through their quarterly magazine, writer’s diary and annual writing competitions. Editor: Debbie Taylor.

Each issue of The North includes: a lively range of international contemporary poetry by new and established writers; book reviews from mainstream publishers to smaller presses; critical articles; conversations with writers; and blind criticism. Editors: Ann and Peter Sansom

Obsessed With Pipework is a quarterly magazine of new poetry which began in 1997, providing a platform for established or beginning writers' poems that surprise and delight. Editors: Charles Johnson & Penny Sharman.