Comments on: Call for Submissions: Magma 44 ‘the Vertical Dimension’

By: Mark McGuinness

Mark McGuinness — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:19:58 +0000

Christopher – as we are a poetry magazine, I’m afraid we don’t consider photography submissions.

By: Christopher Woods

Christopher Woods — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:22:35 +0000

Will you be considering photographs?

By: Mark McGuinness

Mark McGuinness — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:11:20 +0000

Hi Abegail,

Yes, we e-mail everyone who submits poems by e-mail, to let them know whether their work has been accepted.

By: Abegail Morley

Abegail Morley — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:05:11 +0000

Hi. Please can you tell me if email submissions receive a yes or no comment reply as snail mail does (with SAE). Thanks.

By: Tim Kindberg

Tim Kindberg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:14:42 +0000

It’s true that we seldom select poems of more than about a Magma page, although they commonly exceed the 14 lines of a sonnet — and of course are often in other forms. But we take all submissions on their merits, which of course for the most part concern factors more important than length. As my previous comment on this page suggests, we do not have any absolute editorial policies.

By: Rhoda Greenstone

Rhoda Greenstone — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:38:22 +0000

Mr. Kindberg (and I hope you will be kind), I notice your poems have around the same number of lines as sonnets. Is that just coincidence, or do you only print short work?

Rhoda Greenstone

By: Tim Kindberg

Tim Kindberg — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:26:34 +0000

We regret that, like almost all the other UK poetry magazines, Magma is able to make payments only for poems and prose articles that are commissioned by the editors.

All contributors receive a free copy of the issue in which they appear. They can also order up to 5 copies of the issue at the reduced price of £5 per copy, post free. The normal retail price is £5.95 or £6.70 by post.

A short biographical note is included for each contributor who wishes to supply one.

Magma is a magazine, not a competition, but yes, poems are welcome from everywhere in the world.

As for your last question: obviously, the point of having a theme is to include poems that relate to it, in preference to those that do not. Other things being equal, I would prefer to select on-theme poems to others. However, this being poetry, other things are rarely equal when considering whether to publish poem A or poem B. In reality the editorial choice involves weighing up many factors concerning both individual poems and the collection as a whole. So I would take any statement of editorial policy with a pinch of salt. By the way, I say this as an editor but I won’t presume to speak for other Magma editors.

By: Suraj Samtani

Suraj Samtani — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:47:48 +0000

Will there any additional rewards, financial or otherwise, for poets of the selected poems?

Will the selected poets be given a free hard-copy of that particular publication which has their work?

Upon selection, will a(n) (auto)biography of the poet be included within the publication?

I believe this is an international competition, and open to all across the globe, and across all ages. Please correct me if this is incorrect.

Will poems irrelevant to the selected theme still be considered for selection? – Will they have an equal chance to succeed?

- Thanks.

By: Tim Kindberg

Tim Kindberg — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:41:54 +0000

Hello Peter. Thanks for your offer. I can only say that it’s not possible to tell without the work itself in front of us whether it is of interest, but we carefully read whatever poets – or translators – would like to submit to Magma.

By: Petar Penda

Petar Penda — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:43:01 +0000

I would like to submit several poems I have recently translated into English by a poet from Kosovo. The poems reflect the curret political crisis going on in Kosovo. Please let me kow if you are interested.