Magma Poetry

Magma Poetry Competition

Results of Magma Poetry Competition and Invitation to a Free Reading

We’re proud to announce the winners of our inaugural Magma Poetry Competition and to invite you to our celebration reading on Monday 13 February at London’s Waterloo East Theatre, Brad Street, London SE1 8TN (5 minutes walk from Waterloo Station – here is a map.

Doors open at 6.30 p.m. (pay bar), reading at 7.30 p.m. for an hour.  Come early for the best seats, the bar will be open from 6.30 p.m. where you can buy drinks. Copies of the magazine will be on sale, but entry to the reading is free.

Poets entered two contests: the Judge’s Prize for poems of up to 80 lines was judged by award-winning poet George Szirtes; and the Magma Editors’ Prize for poems of up to 10 lines which was judged by a panel of Magma Editors.

Poets will read their winning poems, alongside Fleur Adcock, Martyn Crucefix, Tamar Yoseloff and Inua Ellams who will be reading specially commissioned short poems.  And we are delighted that George Szirtes will be doing a reading of his poems.

We look forward to welcoming you to this free event.

Magma Poetry Competition 2011

Judge’s Prize

1^st Prize (£500): Mona Arshi – Hummingbird

2^nd Prize (£200): Malcolm Watson – Oh, America!

3^rd Prize (£100): Christopher North- The Orchid

Judge’s Prize – Shortlisted Poems

Amy Acre – The Ends of the Earth

Gill Andrews – Creation Myth

Lisa Brockwell – Calf

Joan Condon – Smell

David F Jones – Deluge

Tracey Martin – Threading the Camel

Alan Murray – After

Ron Scowcroft – Hatch

J S Tennant – A Nightingale in Merrion Square

Editors’ Prize for poems up to 10 lines

1^st Prize (£500): Jenny Vuglar – Daphne

2^nd Prize (£200): Chris Preddle – Tam

Editors’ Prize – Special Mentions:

Alan Clemo – Donald

Tom Cunliffe – …..sh

Will Johnson – All things…

Debbie Lim – Meeting the Owl

Afric McGlinchey – Late

Laurence O’Dwyer – Another Good Summer

D A Prince – The Wirral Family

Ben Rogers – Crossing (St Malo-Portsmouth)

Jane Routh – I have always loved a galvanised scoop

Harriet Torr  – Easy rider

Poems up to 10 lines specially commissioned for M52 and the awards event:

Fleur Adcock – Alumnae Notes

Inua Ellams – To preserve value,

Martyn Crucefix – Summerhouse

Tamar Yoseloff – Floor

Sharon Black – Apiculture

David Borrott –  ‘felicitous blending of figure and landscape’

Alan Buckley – Cowley Road, 12.20pm

Holly Corfield Carr – Syzygy

Michael Conley - The Toppled Dictator is Prepared for Burial

Mick Delap – In Flight

Edward Doegar – Secrets

Patrick Early – The Importance of Calligraphy in 10th Century Japan

Sarah Fisher – An Opportunity to Speak German

Sarah Fisher – Folding a Sheet with My Mother

Sally Goldsmith – Yews and Birds

Kerry Hardie – Sixty

Mehmet Izbudak – Black Plastic Bag

Brian Johnstone – Tree Surgeons

Richard Meier – First Birthday

Sharon Morris – To the Source

William Oxley – Thoughts in a Baker Street Cafe

Colin Pink – Games the Dead Play

Breda Wall Ryan – Canzone: Naming the Boat

Barry Tempest - Jan Palach and Jan Zajic Memorial, Vaclav Square, 2000.

Nicola Timmis – Annie Slack

Dennis Tomlinson – The Pyramid

Margaret Wilmot – My Mother’s Sleep is Deep

Dilys Wood – Breconshire Oak Wood

Howard Wright – Home Page