| Magma 20 in the Poetry Library Archive |
The full contents of Magma 20 have been archived by the Poetry Library and can be accessed on their website, here. |
| When lack of love contaminates |
Michael Killingworth reviews The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle (Faber £7.99) A good few of the poems in this book are prefaced by a line or two from Stendhal, and the whole by a quotation from La Chartreuse de Parme: ‘What!’ cried the Duchess in amazement. ‘It is you, sir, one of… |
| What did it for you? |
Editorial On page 29, Andrew Neilson writes, “I vividly remember an essay [by Sean O’Brien] on Auden…which was crucial in drawing me to poetry myself”. Reflecting on what drew me to poetry and my own discovery of its transformative power, I was curious to find out about readers’ formative poetic experiences and how they shaped… |
| Presiding Spirits |
Paul Muldoon on Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Presiding Spirits*, Magma explores how a contemporary poet is influenced by the writing of a poet now dead. Here, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon presents a new poem of his own, in response to one of the best-known sonnets in English, Ozymandias, written by Percy Bysshe… |
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