Welcome to Magma Poetry

Poets, guests and Magma Board members past and present gathered on 29th November 2019 to celebrate 25 years of publishing Magma. We met at the Concert Artistes’ Association in Covent Garden which had recently been refurbished and is very splendid.…

* The submissions window for ‘Act Your Age’ is open from 1st November – 31st December 2019. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Up to 4 poems may be sent via Submittable,…

From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Jennifer Wong reviews Gale Burns, Fiona Benson and Joolz Sparkes & Hilaire

From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Richard Gwyn, Jane Yeh and Steafán Hanvey

From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Laurie Smith reviews Jamie McKendrick, Peter Bennet and Theresa Lola

From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Jade Cuttle reviews Jane Routh, Samantha Walton and an anthology of Somalian poets

Sat, 23 November 2019 14:30 – 17:00 GMT Exmouth Market Centre Exmouth Market London EC1R 4QE Book your free tickets here * At the launch of The Loss Issue, we’ll celebrate the past, memorialise the lost and look to the…

Girlhood is an anthology of objects and ephemera – hallways, windows, televisions, shadows, bonfires, the hissing of rain. They are not a chaotic congregation, but rather nexuses of a convoluted poetic neurosystem. Julia Copus’s multiple narrators, who share an urgent,…

The Magma 2019/20 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 Award-winning poet Caroline Bird is the judge…