| Magma 18 in the Poetry Library Archive |
The full contents of Magma 18 have been archived by the Poetry Library and can be accessed on their website, here. |
| Posthumous poems |
Laurie Smith reviews Marfan by Peter Reading (Bloodaxe) and Reading Peter Reading by Isobel Martin (Bloodaxe). It seems that no-one quite knows what to make of Peter Reading. He has been compared to Swift, Dickens and John Clare, writers so different as to make the comparisons suspect. Sean O’Brien has bizarrely described him as a… |
| A certain kind of energy |
Mary MacRae interviews Mimi Khalvati. Mimi Khalvati, born in Tehran in 1944, grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended Drama Centre London. She has worked as a theatre director and translator, and she co-founded the Theatre in Exile group. She is coordinator of the Poetry School in London and poet in residence at… |
| Urban Fox checks out the craic |
Magma goes to Ireland for the first in a series of articles on writing poetry. A craic: the combination of gossip, information, artistic performance and, of course, booze that go to make a good night out. Ireland, the small island with the twentieth century’s big name poets and novelists, is starting the twenty-first not only… |
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