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Spikenard Yvonne Reddick Smith|Doorstop, £7.50 Dark Matters: new sci-fi poems Russell Jones Tapsalteerie, £5 At the centre of Yvonne Reddick’s beautifully produced chapbook Spikenard is a broken relationship, a sense of loss and a depth of feeling that endures years…

  Mount General, Nanjing, China A Trip to Mount General in Late Winter  —To Yang Yishu and Xia Yeqing Maybe the mountains and plains make arrangements. Or maybe the wrong road has something to do with you, a hare runs away…

“You never lose the north” a friend of mine once told me, in a difficult moment of our lives, and I realised that it meant not losing the orientation, the route linked to the North Star, from the millenary habits…

There’s something about this collection, The Games – by a poet previously unknown to me – that is immediately enjoyable, and even fun – without necessarily being able to ‘get’ everything in the poems. Poetry with an air of experiment…

From losing a precious object to the death of a dear friend, loss is an inspiring topic for poets. In ‘One Art,’ Elizabeth Bishop begins with losing her keys and ends with the loss of a relationship. Loss has inspired…

  Magma Open Pamphlet Competition Results   Winning pamphlet 1. Dear, by Alice Willitts Shortlisted pamphlets 2. /si:d/ by Ben Egerton 3. Satyress by Audrey Molloy 4. I invented a metaphysics by Alison Winch   Read poems from the winning…

Magma was at StAnza last weekend.  It was super friendly, with many excellent events.  There were some interludes of heavenly StAnza weather (proof in the photos).  We’d reprinted the sold-out Climate Change Issue, partly with the festival in mind.  It…

  We are delighted to announce the winners of Magma Poetry Competition 2018/19                 Judge’s Prize Judged by Andrew McMillan First prize:  Inua Ellams – ‘Fuck/Boys’ Second prize: Rowena Warwick – ‘Stillborn’ Third prize:…

There Will Be No Miracles Here Stephen Sawyer Smokestack Books, £7.99 The Barbarians’ Return Mircea Dinescu Bloodaxe Books, £12 Wade In The Water Tracy K Smith Penguin, £8.99 *             ——-I who am alive, begin…