About us

The Little Review is the pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry.

It is sold in more UK bookshops than any other magazine dedicated to poetry.

In each issue you will find pithy reviews, erudite essays, stylish comic-strips, impertinent interviews, a fiendish literary crossword and a handful of new poems.

Poetry magazines can be very dull. The Little Review is not a poetry magazine. We are a magazine – one that just happens to be entirely about poetry.

We print three issues a year (Spring, Summer, and Autumn/Winter) on neat little A6 pages.

As well as a print edition – which is disconcertingly cheap, at just £5 – The Little Review is also available as a PDF. Highlights from the magazine appear in our free weekly newsletter (via Substack).

We are a UK magazine, and not related to the American journal The Little Review (1914-1929), although we’ve been told we have the same nose. We are flattered by the comparison.

Submissions for Issue No. 5 are open from June 22 to August 3, 2026. Read how to submit here.

The Little Review is edited by Tristram Fane Saunders.