The London Magazine February/March 2014 Issue

Online, January 31, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Inside this issue, exclusive work from:

James MacManus - the Managing Editor of The Times Literary Supplement writes an essay on Charles Baudelaire and his muse Jeanne Duval, based on the research he has done for his latest novel Black Venus (Duckworth, Feb 2014).

Matthew Scott - Our Reviews Editor reflects on the impact that the Georgians had on society today after viewing the Georgians Revealed Exhibition currently on at The British Library.

Suzi Feay - Former Literary Editor of The Independent on Sunday, Feay writes about Pele Cox's unique theatrical event Unbound concerning Byron and the Shelleys in Rome.

Also featured in this issue:

Fiction
-New short stories, this time from two Irish writers, 'SaltWater' by Lane Ashfeldt and 'Priesteen' by Ciarбn Folan.

Poetry
- From Hugh Dunkerley, Rebecca Farmer, Giles Goodland, Philip Gross, Fred Johnston, John Kinsella and John Martin.

Essays
- Peter Abbs writes in depth on Roland Barthes and 'The Deconstruction of Self'

-Norman Buller surveys the often-overlooked poetic merit of Sir Thomas Wyatt

-Suzi Feay recollects the dramatic production of Unbound, a play about Byron, Shelley and Keats

-Adrian Husain on Salman Rushdie, history in fiction and a new type of writing

-James MacManus on Charles Baudelaire and his muse and mistress Jeanne Duval

-Jeffrey Meyers in Part Two of The Creative Moment discusses the creative processes of poets Wilfred Owen and Sylvia Plath

-Caroline Moorehead is the fourth writer in the series 'My London'

-George Watson on A Short History of Name-Dropping

Reviews
-Lana Asfour writes on the Male Nude Exhibition recently ended at The Wallace Collection

-Houman Barekat reviews The Emperor's Tomb, the sequel to The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

-David Cooke reviews Matthew Sweeney & John Hartley Williams's Death Comes for the Poets and Peter Robinson's first collection of short stories Foreigners, Drunks and Babies

-Horatio Morpurgo examines The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
Matthew Scott evaluates the Georgians Revealed Exhibition at The British Library

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