We chose hunger as our theme for Magma 46 because we wanted to elicit strongly felt, powerful poems. We were delighted with the response. Poets approached our theme in hugely varied ways, for example playing with the links of food and seduction, but also visiting the territory of the hospital, the ocean or grisly myths depicted in art.
We are thrilled with the sheer variety and scope of poems we ultimately (and painfully) selected for Magma 46; it’s stuffed with poems that surprise and delight, with the work of writers who are published for the first time printed alongside the work of those who are more established, like Blake Morrison and John Burnside.
Poems
| Celia Purcell | Travelling |
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| Padraig Rooney | The ordination meal |
| Lucy Ingrams | Stonechat’s Song |
| Julian Stannard | Scallops for Tracy |
| Sarah Westcott | Owls |
| Phil Poole | Gastroscopy |
Articles
| Structure, metaphor and phenomena | Norbert Hirschhorn investigates connections between modern poetry and modern science. “The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist or mineralogist will… |
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| My marmalade passion or remembering Proust’s gloves | Alan Buckley on poetry, creativity and the unconscious Art is a revelation, not a criticism – WB Yeats, The Body of… |
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