We are excited to share with you a recording of a poem created as part of a collaborative project between architecture scholars. The poem, Home before Home, was written as part of a workshop series, led by Magma editors Leo…
Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems. Our Selected Poet for Magma 91 is Catherine Redford and we are delighted to…
Magma Editors meet Mike Ferguson Magma: This might be the first time Magma has had a poem on the cover! Can you tell us how did you get the idea for this piece on the theme of Grassroots? What’s your…
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…
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…
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…
From Magma 71, The Film Issue The lens Whether you’ve spent a little or a long time with Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry – chances are that what surfaces when you call it to mind, are some of the things you’ve…
I started running South Bank Poetry workshops in 2015, it all started with one workshop at the Poetry Café, which went really well and those who attended wanted to come back for another one, so I ran more and more…
So Many Lives Sometimes I get radiant drunk when I think of and/or look at you, Upstaged by our life, with me in it. And other mornings too Your care is like a city, with the uncomfortable parts Evasive, and…
Having nearly emerged from the other side of co-editing the Deaf Issue, Magma 69, I would like to share a few thoughts on how it works at Magma and our plans. First, it is an immense privilege to edit an…
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