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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…