Presiding Spirits: Alice Oswald on Sophocles
In Presiding Spirits we ask a contemporary poet to write a new poem influenced by the writing of a poet from the past. Earlier this year Alice Oswald’s second collection,…
Blog Review 47: Laurie Smith reviews ‘Falling Awake’ by Alice Oswald
After Memorial, her rendering of military deaths in Homer’s Iliad, Alice Oswald’s seventh collection returns mostly to poems about the natural world. Traditionally poems have described nature either as evidence…
Collaboration and Climate Change
Poetry is a universal language, in which we can all hope to meet. Ted Hughes Sometimes we meet as readers: so the poet will read a science article, the conservationist…
Greta Stoddart shortlisted for the Forward Prize
We are delighted to announce that Greta Stoddart's poem 'Deep Sea Diver', first published in Magma 52, has been shortlisted for this year's Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (in…
Magma 45
Magma 45 takes the theme of ‘Telling Stories’, and contains a page-turning selection of poems, from retellings of ancient myth to sci-fi inspired visions of the future. With Magma’s usual…
Poetry in Practice
In 1961 Al Alvarez published The New Poetry, one of the few poetry anthologies of the 20th century which changed the way that readers thought about poetry. It held up…
Presiding Spirits
In Presiding Spirits we ask a contemporary poet to write a new poem influenced by the writing of a poet from the past. Earlier this year Alice Oswald's second collection,…
Reaching the source
Olivia Cole reviews Clare Pollard's Bedtime (Bloodaxe, £6.95) and Alice Oswald's Dart (Faber, £8.99) In Magma 21 Clare Pollard railed against a seeming contemporary resistance to confessional poetry. Confessionalism, she…
The Magazine
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