Welcome to Magma Poetry

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 85 is Alison Binney and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Poems for Schools issue…

* Designing the cover image for Magma 85 was set as a task for the A Level Photography class at Fortismere School, North London, by their teacher Guy Holden. The students produced a marvellous range of images from which the editors, with much discussion, chose Alvin Erbil’s. Here, Magma Editor Gill Ward talks with Alvin…

From Magma 84, Physics Read the review here: Kym Deyn reviews Rebecca Hurst, Richard Skelton and Josephine Balmer

From Magma 84, Physics Read the review here: Leo Boix reviews Lucy Mercer, Amali Gunasekera and Gayl Jones

From Magma 84, Physics Read the review here: Ariana Benson reviews Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Denise Saul and Yomi Ṣode  

From Magma 84, Physics  Read the review here: Shalini Sengupta reviews Sumana Roy’s VIP – Very Important Plant  

Editors Niall Campbell and Fiona Moore welcome poems that haven’t been previously published in print or online, on the theme of Islands.   We also hope to discover poems by island poets around the world, from Madagascar to Orkney, Fiji to Trinidad.  We’d love to read inter-island collaborations – call and response between two poets, or…

FOOD: Magma x Vittles “It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate, you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.” Julia Child Food is one of the great commonalities. No matter who we are, or where or when we’re from, each of us carries with us memories, recipes, and associations related to our individual food…

We were lucky to have multidisciplinary designer Emmi Hughes creating the cover or Magma 84, on the theme of physics. Here, Magma Editors, Stav Poleg and Susannah Hart, talk with Emmi about the process of creating the work. Magma: The image you created for Magma is full of colour and depth and yet it is incredibly…