| Poetry Cornwall |
Cornwall may be cut off by the River Tamar from England; be surrounded by sea; be nearly 300 km from London; and be home to only half a million people, but the poetry scene here is well-rooted, globally influenced and vibrant. In fact, perhaps because it is virtually an island and has no funded literatureorganisation… |
| Magma poem shortlisted for Forward Prize |
Magma is delighted that Tim Turnbull’s poem Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn, published in Magma 38, has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy. Tim Turnbull first featured in Magma in 2004, when Andrew Neilson reviewed his collection What Was That? in Magma 30. He was… |
| About Magma 41 |
Now Magma 41 has added the creative friction of collaboration to the Magma mix. Karen Green and Linda Black have had a frustrating but invariably fruitful time editing number 41, sometimes fighting, occasionally spontaneously agreeing, but finally coming up with something, we hope you will agree, a little more special than the sum of its… |
| Poetry in Practice - Collaging: first drafts and the challenge of clarity |
‘A work is never beautiful unless it escapes the author in some way’ wrote Sartre [1]. This is not controversial at all, to say art is created by transcending the personal, that at the very least our work has to pass through some kind of lens which allows the poem to emerge into its true… |
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