Congratulations to Carol Ann Duffy, the New Poet Laureate
Warm congratulations from Magma to Carol Ann Duffy on her appointment as the UK's new Poet Laureate, announced today. In a refreshing break from tradition, it won't have escaped anyone's…
Warm congratulations from Magma to Carol Ann Duffy on her appointment as the UK's new Poet Laureate, announced today. In a refreshing break from tradition, it won't have escaped anyone's…
Barbara Bleiman on how poetry teaching needs to change For many years, when leading professional development sessions on poetry at A Level, I used to say to the teachers at…
* The submissions window for ‘Act Your Age’ is open from 1st November – 31st December 2019. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or…
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…
Jo Burns - Circling for Gods (Eyewear), £6 John Challis - The Black Cab (Poetry Salzburg), £6 Hera Lindsay Bird - Pamper Me to Hell & Back (Smith/Doorstop), £7.50 Jo…
In the introduction to her anthology of clothes poems Out of Fashion (Faber, 2004), Carol Ann Duffy wrote '[these poems] examine, in their different ways, how we dress or undress, how we cover up…
The shortlist for this year’s TS Eliot Award has recently been announced. All of us at Magma are delighted to see that our Magma Competition judge, Gillian Clarke, has been…
I’ve been around Magma since before it was Magma, a name chosen “to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable…
I'm pleased to be editing Magma 51, with Ian McEwen as assistant editor. We invite you to send us your poems on the theme 'Profane and Sacred'. Some days, although…
Announcer: As part of our season celebrating The Devil and all his Works, a special literary edition of Desert Island Styx. Magma: Our castaway this morning is somebody who has…