From Magma 71, The Film Issue The lens Whether you’ve spent a little or a long time with Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry – chances are that what surfaces when you call it to mind, are some of the things you’ve seen…
* The submissions window for ‘Work’ is open from 8th October – 8th December 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…
Jo Burns - Circling for Gods (Eyewear), £6 John Challis - The Black Cab (Poetry Salzburg), £6 Hera Lindsay Bird - Pamper Me to Hell & Back (Smith/Doorstop), £7.50 Jo Burns’s debut pamphlet, Circling for Gods, skirts across the seas…
Magma Poetry Competition 2018-19 The Magma 2018/9 poetry competition is now open for entries in both categories * The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines…
Many thanks to all the Magma subscribers who entered the Authentication Competition. Initially, I thought I would be judging the poems on my own, but I was helped in my selection by young poets focusing on their professional development attending…
From the University of Edinburgh website: Creative learning can change minds: Festival of Creative Learning and Magma Film Poetry Project. Read the article here.
The description ‘compulsive reading’ rarely applies to a poetry collection, no matter how well written, so it’s a welcome surprise to find a book that’s hard to put down until every poem is read. Martina Evans has achieved this with…
Martyn Crucefix Reviews Vahni Capildeo, Sean O'Brien and Alice Miller Vahni Capildeo, Venus as a Bear (Carcanet Press, 2018) Sean O’Brien, Europa (Picador Poetry, 2018) Alice Miller, Nowhere Nearer (Liverpool…
Magma Poetry in Collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Read about the collaboration on the Edinburgh College of Art website: Students Work With Poets on Collaborative Film Project Read the introduction by Stav Poleg and Jennifer Williams,…
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