Interviews

                Alexa Winik talks to Fiona Moore about her poetry pamphlet Close River, which judge Mary Jean Chan chose as the winner of the 2020 Magma Pamphlet Competition.   You can get hold of…

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…

  First all of I want to say what a privilege it is to judge this year's Magma competition. The Magma competition is really special to me. I won the inaugural competition with my poem Hummingbird six years ago, a…

In Presiding Spirits we ask a contemporary poet to write a new poem influenced by the writing of a poet from the past. Earlier this year Alice Oswald’s second collection, Dart (Faber and Faber), won the TS Eliot Prize for…

In Presiding Spirits we ask a contemporary poet to write a poem which draws on writing from the past. In this issue W N Herbert responds to Byron’s Childe Harold. Errant My voice went on a quest to find itself…

In Presiding Spirits we ask a contemporary poet to write a poem which draws on writing from the past. In this issue Vicki Feaver responds to Edward Thomas’s Old Man. Old Man Old Man, or Lads-Love, – in the name…