Editor Interview: Long Poem Magazine

Long poems & sequences

Long Poem Magazine is unique in its field, being solely dedicated to the publication of long poems and sequences. We are a magazine keen to promote diversity of form and content. We are as interested in the traditional as in the innovative and aim to represent a diverse range of poets and poetic styles, including translations.

To purchase a copy of the magazine and to check our website for submission guidelines.

We encourage a variety of submissions. Throughout our short history we have published poems from various cultures and countries, and in many different forms, including dialect poems and translations. Amongst the poems we have published recently there is a translations of an ancient Tamil hymn, a gap-year experience in a modern Russian Town, a prose poem, a tribute to the legendary Mrs Beeton and a meditation ‘On Sleep'. In Issue 5 we were proud to have included the first ever publication of Edwin Morgan’s early verse translation of Gilgamesh.

Not much - there is only the occasional poem which is too short - and we only accept 2 poems per submission

Initially we do not need to know anything - if the poem is accepted we ask for an introduction to the poem (of no more than 250 words) re the writing process. We do not include biographical details.

The Editor and the Deputy Editor read all submissions and agree on what to accept/ reject.

We need to think about the balance of the magazine.