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Poems, features & other treats from The Little Review, the pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry.

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Publication day! Callooh! Callay! (opens the original)

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    Good afternoon,The Little Review No. 4 is published today. And just look at it – isn’t it a marvel?One hundred and seventy six pages of poetry, fiction, features, reviews, insolence & triviality, all for a startlingly modest £5. Inside, you can read about the terrible poems of Pablo Picasso, the ghosts of Brighton, and Anne Carson’s second-hand Christmas present.If you haven’t yet ordered your copy – well, what are you waiting for?<p class="

  2. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Issue No. 4 Sneak Peek (opens the original)

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    Good afternoon,The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is here, and so is The Little Review No. 4. Our Autumn issue – out next week, and available to order now – is a 176-page harvest feast of delights.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="388.88222698072803" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/f

  3. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Killing ten dogs in forty minutes (opens the original)

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    Good afternoon,In this week’s enviably well-travelled newsletter:The popular poets of ParisFear and loathing in the West CountryA very unfortunate tomb raiderThe Little Paris Review: Le petit chat, le grand soleilOpposite our flat is a bookshop that opened just over a year ago. Bookshop leases are protected here in Paris – you often see vacant premises with a sign saying ‘available for lease as a bookshop’. Once a bookshop, always a bookshop, I suppose. All the same, our end of t

  4. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    How to help the Worst Poets (opens the original)

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    Good morning,In this week’s pleasantly rambunctious newsletter: Why does poetry sell so little?Helen of Troy in TennesseeWhy ‘We would all of us be crunchy in the bite / of a huge enough decision’Editorial:How to help the Worst PoetsWe have been doing a bit of arithmetic. Collectively, four books – Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid, Charlie Mackesy’s Always Remember and two whodunits by Richard Osman – sold 1.58 million copies in the UK last year. This is, by one

  5. Issue · Aug 7, 2026

    Tony Harrison’s heartbeat (opens the original)

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    Good morning,We are open for submissions until August 13th. If you haven’t yet submitted, and would like to… well, you better get a wiggle on. Also, if you would like to get hold the full first year of TLR in print (Nos. 1-3) for the absurdly reasonable1 price of just £10, our discounted ‘back-issue bundle’ is available until the end of August.And now, three highlight

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