Angela Cleland's second collection shows up that ever-present, subtle gap between the way a book is marketed and the different pleasure it yields. The publisher's blurb for Room of Thieves…
Omnesia is remarkable for being not one book but two – a ‘remix’ and an ‘alternative text’ – and W.N. Herbert prefaces both with an apology to the reader for…
Natalya Gorbanevskaya will be best known to some as the activist to whom Joan Baez dedicated her song 'Natalia'. Part of the Soviet dissident movement, Gorbanevskaya was arrested in 1969…
I was surprised when I heard a well-published poet say he writes a line at a time, always finishing one before moving onto the next. Surprised because it is so…
Another issue off the press and into the hands of readers as Magma 56 launched at the Troubadour Coffee House in Earls Court. Headline readers Jack Underwood and David Morley…
A person's outfit is a clue to the state of the world. In editing this issue of Magma poetry magazine, Helen Mort and I wanted to see these sartorial hints…
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…
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