Magma 80, Avatars, Edited by Petra Kamula, Golnoosh Nour and Richard Skinner
Welcome to the Avatar issue of Magma! We hope you enjoy the contents of this sumptuous issue as much as we editors enjoyed putting it together. When we posted the call-out for submissions, we were very excited to see the results and we weren’t disappointed. We received around 3,200 poems from all over the world and we could not have been happier with the richness and sheer quality of so many of them.
Poems
| Rushika Wick | Quick-unpicked |
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| Len Lukowski | Ode to Vega |
| Matthew Haigh | m(OTHER) |
| Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe | Turaga Enbarr |
| Laura Stanley | Before Evelyn McHale Jumped |
| Anna Kisby | Anna |
Articles
| On the Wing | That week before lockdown. When we should have been in lockdown already. Wandering around a medieval market town in North Yorkshire. Thinking: Well, I guess I live here now. What will I need? —-There’s a crow flying —-Black and ragged —-Tree to tree —-He’s black as the highway —-that’s leading me Eight months previous. I’d… |
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| Editorial | Welcome to the Avatar issue of Magma! We hope you enjoy the contents of this sumptuous issue as much as we editors enjoyed putting it together. When we posted the call-out for submissions, we were very excited to see the results and we weren’t disappointed. We received around 3,200 poems from all over the world… |
| SO YOU WANT TO BE SOMEBODY ELSE? | “Now tell me, please, what guarantee do you possess that those beloved ghosts are genuine; that it is really your dear dead mother and not some petty demon mystifying you, masked?” Vladimir Nabokov, Despair ‘I am going to take your face’—dramatic pause for effect—‘off’. This, a line from John Woo’s 1997 film Face/Off, brings about… |
Issue information
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Supported by Arts Council England