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          Book your tickets here * Thu 29 November 2018 18:30 – 21:00 GMT Exmouth Market Centre Exmouth Market London EC1R 4QE * Looking back to the early 21st century from a few hundred years ahead –…

From Magma 71, The Film Issue The lens Whether you’ve spent a little or a long time with Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry – chances are that what surfaces when you call it to mind, are some of the things you’ve seen…

I was drafting this review when the news came that Matthew Sweeney had died on August 5th. I’d like to think of him, poet with a dried sunflower in one buttonhole and a dwarf red tulip in the other (as…

* The submissions window for ‘Work’ is open from 8th October – 8th December 2018. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Poems may be sent via Submittable, or by post if you…

Jo Burns – Circling for Gods (Eyewear), £6 John Challis – The Black Cab (Poetry Salzburg), £6 Hera Lindsay Bird – Pamper Me to Hell & Back (Smith/Doorstop), £7.50 Jo Burns’s debut pamphlet, Circling for Gods, skirts across the seas…

The Film Issue  event

  Magma Poetry Competition 2018-19 The Magma 2018/9 poetry competition is now open for entries in both categories   * The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines…

Many thanks to all the Magma subscribers who entered the Authentication Competition. Initially, I thought I would be judging the poems on my own, but I was helped in my selection by young poets focusing on their professional development attending…

  From the University of Edinburgh website:   Creative learning can change minds: Festival of Creative Learning and Magma Film Poetry Project. Read the article here.