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By: Judy Brown Wins the London Poetry Competition — — Magma Poetry

Judy Brown Wins the London Poetry Competition — — Magma Poetry — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:22:37 +0000

[...] too to Howard Wright for winning second prize in the competition. Howard is a Magma regular and was our Showcase poet in [...]

By: Silence « Furtive11

Silence « Furtive11 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:30:58 +0000

[...] to the echoes the phrases are making in my head? This is a technique my friend and fellow poet, Jemma Borg, swears by. And Pascale Petit has said somewhere that she writes in silence, with ear [...]

By: Lorraine Mariner Shortlisted for the Forward Prize — — Magma Poetry

Lorraine Mariner Shortlisted for the Forward Prize — — Magma Poetry — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:22:15 +0000

[...] for Best First Collection for Furniture (Picador). Magma was the first national magazine to publish Lorraine’s poems in the early 2000s and we arranged some of her early [...]

By: Magma Reading at Borders Bookshop, Charing Cross — — Magma Poetry

Magma Reading at Borders Bookshop, Charing Cross — — Magma Poetry — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:38:08 +0000

[...] Clare Pollard, Alan Buckley and Linda Black each read and chatted. Clare has been connected with Magma for a long time and was first involved with the magazine when she was only seventeen and a rising star on the poetry scene. She talked about the excitement of being invited to the The Troubadour (where Bob Dylan had played!) so early in her career for the launch. [...]

By: Magma 42 Launch Reading - Vicki Feaver, Blake Morrison and an Enormous Cake — — Magma Poetry

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:45:53 +0000

[...] Vicki Feaver read for us, and so did Blake Morrison. They were pleased to see each other; they hadn’t met for quite some time and I don’t know if it was the result of telepathy or serendipity that Vicki ended on a poem about her father, and Blake finished with a poem about his father. It was a great delight to hear both esteemed poets on the same night. How lucky we were. [...]

By: Meet Magma Poetry - Borders Bookshop Thursday 4th Dec 6.30-7.30 — — Magma Poetry

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:08:42 +0000

[...] your chance to meet two of Magma’s editors, Laurie Smith and Tim Robertson and hear them in discussion with three poets who have been published in Magma: [...]

By: Reminder - Magma 42 Launch Reading TONIGHT! with Blake Morrison and Vicki Feaver — — Magma Poetry

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:17:35 +0000

[...] guest readers are Blake Morrison and Vicki Feaver. As usual many of the contributors to the magazine will also be [...]

By: Magma 42 Launch Reading - 8th November, The Troubadour — — Magma Poetry

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:17:00 +0000

[...] have two wonderful guest readers, Blake Morrison, commentator, journalist and master of form, and Vicki Feaver, all the way from Edinburgh making a rare London appearance. Arrive early to bag a good [...]