Interviews

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…