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Adele Ward Reviews Yvonne Reddick and Russell Jones

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…

Call for submissions – Magma 56: Clothes

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…

TS Eliot Prize Shortlist 2012

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…

Magma’s Early Days

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…

Desert Island Styx

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…

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