Magma 70 ‘Europe’ Launch at Europe House
We're delighted to announce the launch of Magma 70 on the theme of Europe. The launch event will take place on Friday 6 April in London, with readings beginning promptly at 7.00 pm…
[SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED] Call for Submissions: Magma 72, The Climate Change Issue
The submissions window for ‘Climate Change’ is open from 1st March – 30th April 2018. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Poems may be sent via Submittable, or by post if you live in the UK…
Fantastic opportunity to take part in a film-poems project
From The Festival of Creative Learning: 24-hour Filmmaking Competition Saturday, 24 February, 2018 - 10:30 to 12:30 David Hume Tower LG.07 - Teaching Studio Central Area BOOK NOW The Edinburgh Movie Production Society in…
Jennifer Wong Reviews Katy Evans-Bush and Alexandra Strnad
Broken Cities Katy Evans-Bush Smith Doorstop H Is for Hadeda Alexandra Strnad Poetry Salzburg Winner of the Poetry Business Competition judged by Mimi Khalvati and Ian Duhig, Katy Evans-Bush’s pamphlet Broken Cities explores the shifting boundaries between fiction and reality…
Coming Soon: Magma 70 on the theme of Europe
Our editors Susannah Hart and Paul Stephenson are getting very excited about the upcoming launch of Magma 70 on the theme of Europe. It's shaping up to be a fantastic issue packed…
Magma 71 — The Film Issue
Thank you to everyone who submitted poems for The Film Issue. We received a record-breaking number of submissions and it will take us some time to reply. Thanks for your patience.
Steven Waling Reviews ‘Click & Collect’ by Colin Herd
Poetry is a many-splendored thing. Some poetry is intricately shaped, is allusive and difficult and associative and full of serious depth. This is not that kind of poetry. This is contemporary, relatively plain-speaking and about surfaces. There’s a poem in…
Magma 2017/18 Competition open for entries
Magma’s 2017/18 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems. We are very excited to announce that award-winning poet Mona Arshi is the judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines and she will…
Magma & Its Mix at Poetry in Aldeburgh 2017
It was lovely to meet poets at the Magma & Its Mix event at the Poetry in Aldeburgh 2017 festival and discuss ideas for future Magma themes and which issues readers especially enjoyed. Bold themes and political topics were high…
Magma 69 Launch at London Review Bookshop
Join us for the launch of Magma 69: The Deaf Issue on Friday 17th November from 6.30pm at London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, Bloomsbury, London WC1A 2JL. Magma 69 Editors, Lisa Kelly and Raymond Antrobus would like to invite…
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