Long Poem Magazine

Welcome to Issue 27 – 18 long poems (or if you prefer, long poets)  including Penelope Shuttle, Frances Presley, Cat Woodward, Peter Riley, Maitreyabandhu, Javy Awan, Alan Morrison and many more, plus an essay by Josephine Balmer, THE SECRET HISTORY OF TRANSLATING ANCIENT EPIC VERSE’ in which she exposes ‘ a parallel history running underneath the widely- acknowledged course of the Anglophone classical tradition: the story of women translators and poets’. 

We love giving a platform to writers of longer poems and our online reviews section is growing – you can read our latest ones here: Reviews | Long Poem Magazine . And for insights into the writing of long poems do log on to  Poets & Their Processes | Long Poem Magazine 

Enjoy!