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Call for submission: Magma 97, Diasporic Dialogues
The West in me wants the mansion to last. The African knows it cannot. — Nicole Sealey This issue of Magma aims to highlight and celebrate the best of Black poetry in the UK and across the African diaspora. By creating a space solely for Black poets, we want to demolish any imagined boxes that…
Magma Selected: Naomi Madlock
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 95 is Naomi Madlock and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Architecture issue of…
Zakia Carpenter-Hall reviews Fawzia Muradali Kane, Wendy Pratt and Kevin Young
From Magma 94, Remix Read the review here: Zakia Carpenter-Hall reviews Fawzia Muradali Kane, Wendy Pratt and Kevin Young
Laurie Smith reviews Arundhathi Subramaniam, Susie Campbell and Colin Bramwell
From Magma 94, Remix Read the review here: Laurie Smith reviews Arundhathi Subramaniam, Susie Campbell and Colin Bramwell
Andre Bagoo reviews Rebecca Bilkau, Lewis Buxton and Lauren O’Donovan
From Magma 94, Remix Read the review here: Andre Bagoo reviews Rebecca Bilkau, Lewis Buxton and Lauren O’Donovan
Aoife Lyall reviews Rosamund Taylor, Karen Downs-Barton and Theresa Lola
From Magma 94, Remix Read the review here: Aoife Lyall reviews Rosamund Taylor, Karen Downs-Barton and Theresa Lola
Behind the pamphlet and the poet: The Man Who Made Up Trees by Michael Greavy
Michael Greavy won Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition, with Judge Niall Campbell saying: ‘The collection felt like having a seat in the middle of an orchestra or a ceilidh band. There was something so joyful about this abandon to words and their tunefulness’. Magma’s Aoife Lyall commented that the poetry in the pamphlet was ‘held lightly…
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025/26 Poetry Competition!
Magma holds two poetry competitions each year: the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines, which was judged this year by Rishi Dastidar, and the Editors’ Prize for poems up to 10 lines, which was judged by a panel of Magma editors. Download a special PDF document here of all the winning and…
Open poetry pamphlet competition 2026
JUDGE: Marjorie Lotfi DEADLINE: 1 July 2026 To have a pamphlet published by a magazine I’ve admired for its risk and innovation is humbling but richly rewarding. – Michael Greavy, winner of the last Magma competition with The Man Who Made Up Trees MAGMA invites you to enter our fifth pamphlet competition, now…
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