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We've just launched a Facebook group, Friends of Magma Poetry -- a place for you to meet other Magma readers. The group is being hosted by Jacqui Saphra and Rob Mackenzie, members of the Magma team who will be familiar…

Here's your opportunity to give us some feedback about Magma 42 - what you liked and what you think could be improved. And of course it's our opportunity to hear from you. Did you enjoy the selection of poems? Did it…

What do we look for, as readers, in a poem’s first line? There are many answers to that question. I’ve picked out a few of my favourite first lines from poems in Magma 42 ‘Exit my bedroom through cavity walls…

Laurie Smith’s article in Magma 42, 'The New Imagination', explores whether truly great poetry might soon emerge in the UK for the first time in many years. It’s an excellent article – well researched, controversial, and passionate. At one point…

It must have been the wine at the Magma Christmas bash that made me think it might be a good idea to offer myself up to Laurie Smith, one of the founders of the magazine, as assistant editor on Magma…