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Andrew Neilson reviews Zohar Atkins, Angela Kirby and Penny Boxall

March 12, 2020
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From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Andrew Neilson reviews Zohar Atkins, Angela Kirby and Penny Boxall

March 12, 2020
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From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Alice Hiller reviews Rachael Allen, Mona Arshi and Gerry Loose

March 12, 2020
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From Magma 75, Loss Read the review here: Shivanee Ramlochan reviews Niall Campbell, Rebecca Tamás and Helen Nicholson

March 3, 2020
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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…

November 3, 2019
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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…

October 26, 2019
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From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Jennifer Wong reviews Gale Burns, Fiona Benson and Joolz Sparkes & Hilaire

October 26, 2019
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From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Richard Gwyn, Jane Yeh and Steafán Hanvey

October 26, 2019
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From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Laurie Smith reviews Jamie McKendrick, Peter Bennet and Theresa Lola

October 26, 2019
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From Magma 74, Work Read the review here: Jade Cuttle reviews Jane Routh, Samantha Walton and an anthology of Somalian poets

October 8, 2019
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Girlhood is an anthology of objects and ephemera – hallways, windows, televisions, shadows, bonfires, the hissing of rain. They are not a chaotic congregation, but rather nexuses of a convoluted poetic neurosystem. Julia Copus’s multiple narrators, who share an urgent,…