| Magma 19 in the Poetry Library Archive |
The full contents of Magma 19 have been archived by the Poetry Library and can be accessed on their website, here. |
| Neighbourly and otherworldly |
Andrew Neilson reviews Floods by Maurice Riordan (Faber £7.99) and A Quark for Mister Mark edited by Maurice Riordan and Jon Turney (Faber £6.99). Floods is the second collection by Maurice Riordan, an Irishman living in London whose first book, A Word from the Loki, was nominated for the T S Eliot Prize. It opens… |
| Poetry wired |
Tim Kindberg introduces us to poem-surfing, in the second of a series on resources for poets and readers. Poetry is abundant on the Internet. It is read from and even created on web pages, discussed in electronic news groups, submitted and transmitted in emails. That proliferation represents both the weaknesses and the strengths of the… |
| Presiding Spirits |
Kathleen Jamie on Anon, the first of a series on relationships between dead and living poets. The Presiding Spirits project was produced by Lavinia Greenlaw for the Royal Festival Hall, London. A number of poets reading at the RFH in Poetry International 2000 were asked to choose a poet, now dead, whom they felt to… |
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