Magma 95 - Magma Poetry

Magma 95, Architecture, edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg

—–At the end of my suffering
—–there was a door

—–—Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

In our call for submissions, we asked for poems concerned with space, place and structure. We invited poems that consider architecture as their subject and method, and sought pieces that engage with the physical and imagined realms of architecture, the spaces we inhabit, traverse, or dream into existence. In response, we received hundreds of poems addressing different forms of grief, loss, and deep fear and uncertainty. Perhaps it was inevitable: as in Glück’s The Wild Iris, our deepest, most difficult feelings often seek physical manifestation. From Magma 95, Editorial.

Audio Features

Selected Poet: Naomi Madlock

Poetry and Architecture: Collaborative Poem

Poems

Lucy Allsopp	Boundary
Alice Willitts	Technical considerations for fitting a solar panel on your heart
Rebecca Goss	The Windowsills
Isla Husain	Ice Cave Tour
Matt Howard	Olduvai Chopping Tool
Michael Bazzett	If Something like a Box

Articles

Magma 95, Editorial	In our call for submissions, we asked for poems concerned with space, place and structure. We invited poems that consider architecture as their subject and method, and sought pieces that engage with the physical and imagined realms of architecture, the spaces we inhabit, traverse, or dream into existence.
Private memory and public myth, from Ctesiphon to the Cam	Architect Rebecca Wober explores the links between private memory, poetry and architecture:
The house’s dream of itself was at its grandest downstairs	In each issue we ask a contemporary poet for a piece which draws inspiration from another poet’s work. For the Architecture issue, Laura Scott responds with a poem inspired by a building, specifically her childhood home.

Issue information

Architecture — Table of Contents