Why not join us for a celebratory evening with Magma Competition judge and special guest Jo Shapcott at Keats House on Friday March 27th, 7-8.30pm, when the winners of the 2014/15 Magma Competition will read their prizewinning poems. Venue: Nightingale Room, 10 Keats Grove,…
This is your last chance to enter the Magma Poetry Competition 2014/15! Magma’s Poetry Competition has two contests, one for short poems of up to 10 lines, and one for poems of 11 to 50 lines. Poems of 11 to 50 lines…
If you still need an extra push to enter the 2014/15 Magma Poetry Competition, then poet Christine Webb has written a specially commissioned poem on the scary theme of deadlines to help you beat 19th January! Christine Webb's first collection, After Babel, was published in…
As part of our Winchester Poetry Festival activities to launch our National Conversation about poetry, Magma ran a pop-up poetry competition on the theme of 'nationhood'. The competition was won outright by Dom Cramp for his poem, The Broken English…
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The entry period for both the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 80 lines, and the Magma Editors’ Prize for poems of up to 10 lines is OPEN and runs until 16 December. Hurry and send us your poems!…
The post will soon bring me a fat package of poems, long promised, the programme of reading and judging them marked in my diary in advance. Every poem will carry its author’s hope of success, every page a glimpse of…
We would be delighted if you would join us for this event at Waterloo East Theatre, Brad Street, London SE1 8TN (5 minutes walk from Waterloo Station) Doors (and bar) open 6.30. The readings start at 7.30 and you'll be…
In June this year, in celebration of 50 issues of Magma Poetry magazine, and in anticipation of more to come, Magma Poetry launched a new competition. The entry period for both the Judge’s Prize for poems of up to 80…
For years we debated it, balked, retreated, re-visited, shelved and returned to it, until eventually we decided the time had come to launch our first competition. It's been a long road: Magma is run democratically and each of us on…
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