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…
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…
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…
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.
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’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…
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…
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…
How We Hear Consider how sound shapes our relationship with one another and the wider world as we launch Magma 69, The Deaf Issue, a magazine that includes poems by d/Deaf poets exploring deafness, how we hear and what we…
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and the Festival of Creative Learning. During the Call for Submissions for Magma 71, we will choose a number of…
Supported by Arts Council England
Copyright © 2026 MagmaPoetry.com. All Rights Reserved.