Magma 80: Avatars

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
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…
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…

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