Magma 77, Act Your Age, edited by Gboyega Odubanjo, Selina Rodrigues and Christine Webb
Poets are mortal, but poems remain, and in this issue you will find many poems that deserve a long life. Passion, curiosity, fury, wit – in editing the Act Your Age issue we were struck by the vigour and also the depth of poetic responses.
Poems
| Judy Brown | winter a dropped stitch |
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| Richard Lambert | The Rec |
| Lucy Cage | May Is The Month To Die In |
| Thembe Mvula | Umdudla |
| Rob Jackson | Dive Buddy |
| Jamal Mehmood | The Leaf of the Neem Tree |
Articles
| Magma 77 Editorial | Passion, curiosity, fury, wit – in editing the Act Your Age issue we were struck by the vigour and also the depth of poetic responses. We started this issue with a call for submissions inviting poets to “act your age” or to “defy it… boldly, slyly, fearfully, joyfully”. As we write this editorial at the… |
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| Breaking Form and Taking Risks | Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall talk to Magma about Bad Betty Press Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall run Bad Betty Press, which has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks and the Saboteur publisher awards and whose books have been the Poetry Book Society’s selections, and the Poetry School’s Books of 2019 and 2018.… |
| Inspired: Liz Berry responds to Kim Addonizio | In each issue we ask a contemporary poet for a poem which draws inspiration from another poet’s work. Liz Berry responds to Kim Addonizio’s poem Good Girl. Here is an extract, but read the full article in Magma 77 to find out what Liz did next and to read her magnificent poem, The Magpie. I… |
Issue information
Act Your Age - Sold Out — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England