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Here's a poem by Rishi Dastidar.  Thucydides, historian of ancient Greece, chronicler of the violent struggle between Athens and Sparta in the late 5th century BC, and his trap.  Relevant?  Oh yes.  The trap is as nasty as the tone…

Sometimes readers react to ‘subject matter’ over the activity of the poem. They feel anything remotely ‘political’ to be polemical and thus didactic. They feel they “know this information already, so why do they need it in a poem”. That…

Poetry is a universal language, in which we can all hope to meet. Ted Hughes  Sometimes we meet as readers: so the poet will read a science article, the conservationist a poem, we trespass out of our artforms and disciplines…

After a tantalising three months of correspondence with James Cropper Papermill, not to be able to source paper from their recycled range for Magma 72 was a disappointing blow, but it wasn’t exactly a dead-end. Our contact encouraged me to…

No matter where you might be on the spectrum of environmental awareness, most of us who exchange gifts or cards over the Christmas period, (myself included) in the aftermath can feel twinges of remorse about the sheer amount of paper…

Here is a scary New Year’s treat – a poem from Suzannah V Evans written during the mass die-off of North Sea creatures during the Beast from the East storm in March 2018. I love the way the poem takes…

Welcome to our blog on Magma’s Climate Change Issue. We’ll be posting every week or two between now and March. We’ll write about the background to the magazine, the editing experience, events etc, and introduce a few guest contributions. Magma…