LPM now operates a shorter 'reading window'. The windows run from 1st March to 31st March, when we read submissions for the July issue, and from 1st September to 31st September for the January issue. Please only submit at these times or your work will not be read.

The submission period for Issue 8 is 1st to 31st March 2012

Submission Guidelines

• 2 poems maximum submission  

• Poems must be over 60 lines
  

• Poems must be unpublished - although we will take an entire sequence where parts have been previously published

• Put your name on each poem


• Ensure your poems are saved as .doc files - please ensure that if you have windows 2007 you save your file as windows 2003 as we cannot at the moment open files with .docx 

• Put your name and the poem title on your documents and save them as something like joebloggs.doc rather than longpoem.doc 

• email them to mail@longpoemmagazine.org.uk as .doc files

• only submit in the submission season

  The spirit of 'long' is probably more important than length  - by which we don't mean it doesn't have to be long - but it also needs substance. 

  Mimi Khalvati writes: The long poem is as much a space in which to flex one's muscles, grapple with problems, identify weaknesses, as it is to mine rich seams, give sway to obsessions and vent to narrative.

  Ask - is your poem ambitious - does it have a 'big' heart?
  

  LPM editors close-read all submissions - so please don't send more than 2 poems to be considered for any one issue. 

  We also invite pitches for main articles/essays, and for book reviews on the website.