| Magma 31 in Poetry Library Archive |
The full contents of Magma 31 have been archived by the Poetry Library and can be accessed on their website, here. |
| Poetry in practice: mistakes poets make |
Roddy Lumsden surveyed several poets and asked them to suggest what irks them about poets as writers and performers, to offer advice and to confess a few of their own foibles. Here are their anonymous responses (serious or tongue-in-cheek). On writing *To begin with, imitate as many major poets as possible: to imagine you have… |
| David Constantine and Adam Zagajewski reviewed |
David Constantine’s Collected Poems (Bloodaxe £12) and Adam Zagajewski’s Selected Poems (Faber £12.99) These are representative collections by poets close in age to Heaney who have written with compar-able seriousness and, in Constantine’s case, published with similar frequency. They allow provisional estimates of two substantial writing careers. David Constantine’s Collected is not complete, comprising the… |
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