Cheryl Moskowitz spoke to Alice Willitts about her poetry collection ‘Dear', which was selected as the pamphlet winner for the 2018 Magma Pamphlet Competition. To get yourself a copy of ‘Dear’, please click here CM: It was my great pleasure to…
from Magma 79: Dwelling Edited by Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans and Rob A. Mackenzie Film Poem: the child’s childhood by Penelope Shuttle An animated film of Penelope Shuttle’s poem ‘the child’s…
Magma Poetry #79 on Dwelling was partly funded by the Arts Council of England’s COVID Culture Recovery Fund and the Ohio State University Global Arts + Humanities discovery themes. Its editors are Zoë Brigley, Kristian Evans and Rob A. Mackenzie.…
Obsidian is a foundation and poetry retreat, launched for Black poets and founded by Nick Makoha. The Retreat is a long-term, sustainable programme, based on the successful model of Cave Canem in the USA. The Foundation provides Black poets—who often face multiple…
From Magma 76, Resistancia In each issue, we ask a contemporary poet for a poem which draws inspiration from another poet’s work. In this issue, Francisco Aragón responds to Carmen Giménez Smith.…
From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Andrew Neilson reviews Zohar Atkins, Angela Kirby and Penny Boxall
From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Alice Hiller reviews Rachael Allen, Mona Arshi and Gerry Loose
From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Shivanee Ramlochan reviews Niall Campbell, Rebecca Tamás and Helen Nicholson
A man's house catches fire. A title poem. What kind of fire is it? At first, the man thinks the smell of smoke is “just me going off my head// which I have learned to expect”, but the fire continues…
Twenty years ago I wrote my first review for Magma, in the autumn 1999 issue (Magma 15, for those counting). Little was I to know that two decades on I would still be reviewing for what has become something of…
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