Issue launches

We're launching the latest Magma magazine, M61, this Friday (15th May) at the London Review Bookshop (14, Bury Place, WC1A 2JL). The theme of Magma 61 is 'The Street'. There will be readings from our guest poets Simon Barraclough and Christine Webb…

Newcastle's Lit & Phil isn't easy to describe. It's a beautiful building that harbours expansive rooms, mezzanines, corridors and hideaways, bookshelves against every wall packed with books. The photos below will give a flavour but I'd advise anyone to check…

Tonight (Thurs 11 December 2014) is the Newcastle launch of Magma 60. If you're in the vicinity, do come along to the Lit & Phil (23 Westgate Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 1SE) at 7pm for a…

Freedom is a word so big, or so close to us, that perhaps we don't even see it. Certainly the poems that arrived in response to our call for poems on the theme of 'Freedom' were so various that often we couldn't…

Join us for an evening of poetry and a celebration of  at our regional launch Upstairs at the Western in Leicester, Thursday July 17th. Lorraine Mariner and Kathryn Gray will be joined by other poets from the issue. Drinks are available from the…

Magma 59 will be launched at two venues.   In London, the launch will take place at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL on Friday 27 June. Doors open at 6.30pm with readings 7 to 9pm with Colette Bryce and Lorraine…

Magma 58 was launched for the first time at the London Review of Books. If you weren’t able to attend the launch, or would simply like to hear the evening again, you can now listen to a podcast of the…

Magma has launched for the first time in two venues. After many years at the Troubadour in Earls Court, London, through the sterling support of Anne-Marie Fyfe, we are now holding launches in London and another part of the country…

For the first time the new issue of Magma will have two launches. The first is on Friday 7th March at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL (very near the British Museum) beginning at 7pm. Our…