Magma 87, Islands, edited by Niall Campbell, Fiona Moore, and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Each new Magma theme raises the question: how will people write it, how will they startle and delight us? This time we were set on capturing something of the variety and scope that the theme of Islands offered. We hoped to invert majority notions of centre and periphery. We wanted the wild and windswept. At the same time we looked for poems that subverted, ignored or went beyond island clichés, far from the island gift shop cards with yearningly beautiful images.
Poems
| Clementine E Burnley | Love, in extra time |
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| Christie Williamson | Deserves |
| Ingrid Leonard | Lizzie |
| Keith Jarrett | Transculturation / Commemoration |
| Saradha | The nervous system out of sync— sounds like rootshock— |
| José Buera | Epitaph |
Articles
| Magma 87— Editorial | Each new Magma theme raises the question: how will people write it, how will they startle and delight us? This time we were set on capturing something of the variety and scope that the theme of Islands offered. We hoped to invert majority notions of centre and periphery. We wanted the wild and windswept. At… |
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| Inspired: Shivanee Ramlochan explores the true inspiration of Olive Senior | In each issue we ask a contemporary poet for a poem which draws inspiration from another poet’s work. Shivanee Ramlochan responds to Meditation on Yellow by Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior. * Say to my pyre that I wore only gold to death by Shivanee Ramlochan not that I came to this island with blood… |
Issue information
Islands — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England