Magma Poetry

This is Magma Poetry

Magma - the poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Appearing three times a year, Magma is available in bookshops and can be ordered online or by post.

Magma invites contributions of unpublished poems. In Magma 52 (March 2012), on page 22, we published a poem titled "Newton's First Law of Motion" submitted by Christian Ward. We have recently discovered that this poem was written, apart from a few minor changes of wording, by Matthew Olzmann with the title "Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion" and published in New England Review 30/4 (Winter 2009/10). We very much regret publishing a plagiarised poem which we accepted in good faith.

Featured Blog Posts

• Call for submissions for Magma 57: The Shape of the Poem

  Poetry is a shaping of words and that shape can often be seen on…

• Magma 55 launch reading on Monday 25 February with Penelope Shuttle and Clare Pollard

  Come and join us for the launch reading of the new issue of Magma…

• Magma 54 launch reading on Monday 19 November with Sean Borodale and Maurice Riordan

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