Magma 74 launch event Thursday 4 July Exmouth Market Centre, London 18:30 – 21:00 BST Book your tickets here On Thursday 4 July, Magma poetry magazine will launch its Summer 2019 issue in London. Magma is pleased to be publishing over…
Gallop, an overview of Alison Brackenbury’s nearly 40 years of work, is appropriately named for its many poems about horses, but it could also be a gallop through her impressive career. Tonally, though, it’s probably more of a horseback ramble…
Mount General, Nanjing, China A Trip to Mount General in Late Winter ---To Yang Yishu and Xia Yeqing Maybe the mountains and plains make arrangements. Or maybe the wrong road has something to do with you, a hare runs away…
"You never lose the north" a friend of mine once told me, in a difficult moment of our lives, and I realised that it meant not losing the orientation, the route linked to the North Star, from the millenary habits…
From losing a precious object to the death of a dear friend, loss is an inspiring topic for poets. In ‘One Art,’ Elizabeth Bishop begins with losing her keys and ends with the loss of a relationship. Loss has inspired…
Magma Open Pamphlet Competition Results Winning pamphlet 1. Dear, by Alice Willitts Shortlisted pamphlets 2. /si:d/ by Ben Egerton 3. Satyress by Audrey Molloy 4. I invented a metaphysics by Alison Winch Read poems from the winning…
Magma was at StAnza last weekend. It was super friendly, with many excellent events. There were some interludes of heavenly StAnza weather (proof in the photos). We’d reprinted the sold-out Climate Change Issue, partly with the festival in mind. It…
We are delighted to announce the winners of Magma Poetry Competition 2018/19 Judge's Prize Judged by Andrew McMillan First prize: Inua Ellams - 'Fuck/Boys' Second prize: Rowena Warwick - 'Stillborn' Third prize:…
THE CHANGELING ISSUE editors Ella Frears and Richard Scott Tue, 2 April 2019 18:30 – 21:30 BST Studio Voltaire 1A Nelson's Row London SW4 7JR Book your tickets here We are proud…
We had 430 replies to the Big Survey. Thank you very much to everyone who took part. One lucky person won a free subscription (announced on Twitter). The survey had some messages for us… The clearest one was that people…
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