Welcome to Magma Poetry

Co-edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg * This forthcoming issue of Magma grows out of our collaboration with architecture scholars which began during a conference at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in Spring 2025. The conference, Poetic Spatial Writing, invited us to work with architecture scholars and students in order to explore creative approaches…

The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 11.59pm GMT See more details here

From Magma 92, Ownership  Read the review here: Karina Jakubowicz reviews Sarah Fletcher, Trudie Gorman and Nisha Ramayya

From Magma 92, Ownership  Read the review here: Aoife Lyall reviews Kathy Pimlott, Camille Ralphs, and Dzifa Benson

From Magma 92, Ownership  Read the review here: Eric Yip reviews Raymond Antrobus, Jamie McKendrick and Jeda Pearl

From Magma 92, Ownership  Read the review here: Alice Tarbuck reviews Em Strang, Tamar Yoseloff, Victoria Kennefick

For this issue of Magma, we ask that you send us your poems that carry an expressed spirit rendered so differently that they are a new thing. —–“You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you know where you come from, it’s ——easier to get where you’re going.” – Quincy Jones Take inspiration from…

From Magma 91, In The Flesh Read the review here: Shalini Sengupta reviews Gustav Parker Hibbett, Niall Campbell and Len Pennie

From Magma 91, In The Flesh Read the review here: Zoë Brigley reviews Gboyega Odubanjo, Jen Campbell and Sasha Dugdale