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…
Opening the Poetry Door – Letting in the Hordes
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…
Call for Submission — Magma 77, Act Your Age
* 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…
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…
Jade Cuttle Reviews Pamphlets by Jo Burns, John Challis and Hera Lindsay Bird
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…
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…
Call for Submissions: Magma 51 ‘Profane and Sacred’
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…
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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