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From Magma 88, Underworld  Read the review here: Rishi Dastidar reviews Martina Evans, Rachel Carney and Dylan Brennan

From Magma 88, Underworld  Read the review here: Lisa Kelly reviews Jane Clarke, Jacqueline Saphra, and William Letford

From Magma 88, Underworld  Read the review here: Helena Nelson reviews Daljit Nagra, Sarah Salway and Amy Acre

From Magma 88, Underworld  Read the review here: Alice Tarbuck reviews Dawn Watson, Linda France and Laboni Islam

In the Flesh: a phrase that has many connotations: those of being born, those of being in and experiencing your own body as it ages and changes. In the Flesh speaks to health and illness, life, death, recovery and regeneration, and in and amongst all of that, food – that first mouthful of a ripe…

Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems. Our Selected Poet for Magma 88 is Molly Underwood and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Underworld issue of…

Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024  Judged by Niall Campbell  Deadine: 1 July 2024  Welcome to our 2024 pamphlet competition, now open for entries.    “The pamphlet has allowed my words to find new lines of flight that I never dreamed possible.”   – Asim Khan, winner of the last Magma competition with Annihilation, PBS Spring Pamphlet…

The submissions window for ‘Grassroots’ is open from 1 – 31 March 2024. ** Grassroots What does Grassroots mean to you? Community? Activism? Environmentalism? Or something else? At a time of unprecedented global turmoil where our political elites struggle to deal with the pressing issues of the day – climate change, ongoing wars, and social…

News of our 2024 pamphlet competition coming soon – watch this space.