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Call for submission — Magma 89, Performance
The submissions window for ‘Performance’ is open from 4 December 2023 – 4 January 2024. ** Performance All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. – from Shakespeare’s As You Like It While broadly…
Magma Open Pamphlet Competition 2022
We are delighted to announce the publication of Annihilation, the stunning new pamphlet by Birmingham poet Asim Khan, and winner of our 2022 Pamphlet Competition. Order the pamphlet here!
Magma 2023/24 Poetry Competition
The Magma 2023/24 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 *** Magma’s 2023/24 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems. We are very excited to announce that…
Fahad Al-Amoudi reviews Momtaza Mehri
From Magma 86, Food Read the review here: Fahad Al-Amoudi reviews Momtaza Mehri
Tom Branfoot reviews Hannah Sullivan, Jacob Polley and Degna Stone
From Magma 86, Food Read the review here: Tom Branfoot reviews Hannah Sullivan, Jacob Polley and Degna Stone
S. Niroshini reviews Will Harris, Jennifer Lee Tsai and Solmaz Sharif
From Magma 86, Food Read the review here: S. Niroshini reviews Will Harris, Jennifer Lee Tsai and Solmaz Sharif
Gboyega Odubanjo, our dear colleague and friend
The enormous outpouring of love for Gboyega Odubanjo, British-Nigerian poet, and his amazing impact on all who met him have been felt within the poetry community and beyond, way, way beyond. Our thoughts are with Gboyega’s family and wide circle of friends at this incredibly difficult time. Everyone he met was touched by his lovely…
Magma 88: Underworld – Call for Submissions
The submission period opens on 1 July, 2023 ‘The history of the atmosphere is recorded in the subsurface: in the sediments of the deep seas, in deep peat bogs and lakes, in the air bubbles in the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. You can’t understand heaven without knowing hell. The Earth is its own…
Magma Selected: Nabeela Saghir
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 86 is Nabeela Saghir and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Food issue…
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