Magma 44 is full of delectable summer reading. With a typically refreshing Magma twist, our theme of the vertical dimension will take you above and below our usual frame of reference: whether looking down from a cable car or up to the Moon; pointing high in simple tenderness or digging or diving into the earth; lingering by the water in Venice, or sailing the China seas. The poems in Magma 44 reflect emotional and intellectual exploration, including new poems from Lawrence Sail, Sheenagh Pugh, Alison Brackenbury and Helen Ivory.
Poems
| Stav Sadot-Poleg | Moons |
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| Lesley Saunders | The parachute dress |
| Matthew Howard | Datum |
| Anuradha Vijayakrishnan | The epiphyte speaks |
| Stephen Payne | Glenn Gould into the music |
| Cherry Smyth | To Dursey |
Articles
| Editorial | The theme for Magma 44 is the vertical dimension of our lives: that which is above or below our frame… |
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| Features | Magma 44 is a summer basket of poetry and writing about poetry. There are new poems from Alison Brackenbury, Helen… |
| Digging Deep | Pamela Johnson on the quest of Sharon Olds Sharon Olds has been exploring the vertical dimension, writing about her roots, for… |
| Guest Choice: Cyril Nri chooses Yeats's He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | I was sixteen when I first came across this poem. I was in the throes of on-coming exams and had… |
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