We asked three younger poets and four small publishers to think about the gambles they’ve taken in their careers thus far. The question we asked was, very simply, “What’s the biggest risk you’ve taken as a poet/publisher?”, but the answers…
Magma’s 2015/2016 Poetry Competition is now open and runs until19 January 2015. Daljit Nagra is the Judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines. First prize £1,000, second prize £300 and third prize £150. Magma’s Editors’ Prize is…
For many of us, a deadline is what’s needed to kick-start creativity. This is certainly true for Paul Stephenson, who won the Editors' Prize in the Magma Poetry Competition 2012/2013 for his poem, The Pull. The Editors' Prize is unique as the only short poem prize…
Underground Poetry is a new movement in which poems by current writers are photocopied and handed out to people travelling by Tube. Lizzy Dening speaks to the movement’s founder, Nina Ellis, about how poetry can fit into the nine to…
So the Magma Roadshow is now back from the magazine fair at the fantastic Scottish poetry festival, StAnza up in Saint Andrews and there's a podcast to prove we were really there. Click to listen to the interview The Magma…
In each issue, Magma highlights the work of a poet the editor feels deserves to be more widely known. In Magma 42, that poet was Sarah Jackson, who lives in Brighton and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at…
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