Magma 71, The Film Issue, edited by Cheryl Moskowitz and Stav Poleg
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Poems
| Anthony Caleshu | I am light threefold, measurer of the region, exhaustless heat, burnt-oblation |
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| Kate Rutter | Peterloo: Estimated Wrap 19.00 |
| Maria Taylor | And there she was in the shrunken apartment like Joan Crawford, toy dog on her lap |
| Andrew McMillan | curtain |
| Liz Lefroy | They are incidental, |
| Sandra Burnett | sixties usherette |
Articles
| Magma 71 Editorial | The Writer as Collaborator Stav Poleg In what ways do we, as writers, respond to films? I come back time and again to the cinema of Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri. When I watch “The Taste of Others” and “Comme une Image” I feel instantly at home in a place where language is handled with… |
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| Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen | In the following article, poets Stav Poleg (Magma) and Jennifer Williams (University of Edinburgh) introduce the collaboration of Magma Poetry with the University of Edinburgh and the Festival of Creative Learning. What better place and time to contemplate a collaboration? It was the peak… |
| Magma Poetry in Collaboration with the University of Edinburgh | The Films For an introduction about the collaboration go to: Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen Pegasus in the Lab Film-poem by Marios Lizides after a poem by Ginny Saunders Marios Lizides: I consider poetry to be closer to filmmaking than prose. Through ambiguity and symbolism you are able… |
| Inspired: Caroline Bird responds to filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall’s feature Fever of the Light | In each issue we ask a contemporary poet for a poem which draws inspiration from another poet’s work. Here, Caroline Bird responds to filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall’s feature Fever of the Light. Co-editor Cheryl Moskowitz met them to discuss their process. … |
| A Dark Stage — Magma 71 Reviews | AND Michael Mackmin (Happenstance Press, £10.00) Joy Sasha Dugdale (Carcanet, £7.99) Fortune Cookie Jenna Clake (Eyewear Publishing, £10.99) Read backwards, AND is DNA and the ‘Poems 1970 – 2017’ are encoded with Mackmin’s life – its loves and losses, which are explored with frank honesty. Mackmin is at the helm of the excellent poetry magazine,… |
Issue information
The Film Issue — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England