Magma 69, The Deaf Issue, edited by Lisa Kelly and Raymond Antrobus
Welcome to a wide-ranging issue that we hope reflects multiple ways of looking at ‘deafness’ and what it means to an individual and society.
Poems
| Josephine Dickinson | Alphabetula |
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| Ksenia Balabina | A Parallel Between Two |
| Rodney Wood | My Single Sided Deafness |
| Keith Jarrett | ‘UGTIGRTIGRGBNRDRGNGGJNRIC YOU ARE OUR HELP AND OUR HOPE….RFSCNGUGHURGVHKTGHDKUN’ |
| Jill Abram | Noisemaker |
| Hannah Lowe | The Stroke |
Articles
| Magma 69 Editorial | Magma 69 Editorial by Lisa Kelly and Raymond Antrobus This issue is not perfect. It is not definitive. It is not even deafinitive on deafness and poetry. Before our call for submissions, we realised there was a risk in calling Magma 69 ‘The Deaf Issue’; addressing deafness as a theme and inviting responses from non-hearing… |
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| Magma 69 Reviews "to stay at sea is to stay at home” | British Museum Daljit Nagra Faber, £14.99 (hardback) Seasonal Disturbances Karen McCarthy Woolf Carcanet, £9.99 Bear Chrissy Williams Bloodaxe, £9.95 Where can we search for words that embody hope and resistance for troubled times? Poetry may be one answer, but… |
| From: “A Poetry of the Eye” | As with any minority language carrying a raw and recent history of oppression, there are complicated politics in deaf communities. Shunned at school by those whose ability to speak English was prized, older sign language poets may balk at the success of bilinguals, seen as making a prodigal return now that social capital and cachet… |
| From “Sign Language, Acting and Poetry” | When we think of ‘onomatopoeia’ we think of the sound and how a word fits to describe what’s heard, but for me there’s a more visual manifestation, as understood in Ideasthesia and in extreme cases Synaesthesia – how does the sound look or feel or even smell? If I think about the light around the… |
Issue information
The Deaf Issue — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England