In December 2019, our cover artist, the South African environmental photographer Jean Brundrit, travelled to Antarctica on a research ship. She spent two weeks photographing the world around her. Many of her photographs were taken using a specially crafted lens…
Test post of Magma video. Jon Stone reading at a Magma lauch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxL-9lO0Z1c Sound recording of Magma 58 2nd Half:
The Poetry Turntable was in action at the Market Theatre during Ledbury poetry festival. The turntable featured as part of Poetry in Motion, the joint initiative by Magma and Ledbury poetry festival to bring poems and poetry-related content to people…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-QNjhxlTTI Magma celebrated its 50th issue on Monday 27 June with a full-house Troubadour. A huge and yummy cake was brought in, and everyone collected their Magma 50 souvenir badges. This issue is edited by Clare Pollard, with the newly…
In this week's excellent episode of 'A Poet's Guide to Britain' on the BBC, the poet Clare Pollard is interviewed by Owen Sheers about Sylvia Plath's landscape poetry. Clare is a member of the Magma team and is currently editing Magma 45, which will be launched in November 2009.
The episode will be available on iPlayer for the next month - watch it online here or you can catch it on on BBC4, Thursday 14th May at 22.00. If you're in a hurry, you may like to know that Clare first appears 4 minutes into the programme, but it's well worth taking the time to watch the whole programme.
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