About Magma
Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in Spring, Autumn and Winter, in full on paper and in selection on our Web site. We look for poems which give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.
Magma is unusual in being run by a small group rather than an individual. Several writers with a roughly similar view of poetry got together and shared out the various jobs that needed to be done. They decided that each issue should have a different editor but, for continuity, each editor is advised by the editors of the previous and subsequent issues. The strength of the rotating editorship is that each editor brings his/her particular interests to bear, resulting in poems and emphases that no-one else in the group could have predicted. We feel that this arrangement works because we have a similar idea of what makes a good poem.
We receive contributions by email from all over the world and, in most issues, about a quarter of the poems are from poets living abroad, including Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australasia and Singapore.
Our readers' comments and suggestions are welcome.
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