I’m excited to be Editor of Magma 52 with Helen Nicholson as Assistant Editor, and the theme for the issue is “putting on the mask”. I chose this theme because all of us from time to time put on a…
Our exciting new mobile poetry initiative comes to Ledbury Poetry Festival. In addition to the Magma Roadshow event, Magma and Ledbury Poetry Festival are bringing poems to those out and about at the festival (1-10 July 2011) via their mobile…
Magma 50 is now available to buy from the Magma website and in bookshops. The issue edited by Clare Pollard with the theme ‘Journeys’. Don’t miss the Magma 50 launch reading on Monday 27 June at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court,…
Clare Pollard, Alan Buckley and myself journeyed up to Manchester one cold clear Wednesday morning in October to do a reading and a Q&A about Magma. The train journey passed in the wink of an eye, involving among other things…
In the past couple of years the Magma Roadshow has journeyed up and down and cross country to Aldeburgh, Ledbury, StAnza and Cheltenham. This Autumn we're excited to be going to the Manchester Literature Festival to run a one-off free…
Magma launches each new issue at the Troubadour Café, in association with Coffee-House Poetry, and has hosted many memorable readings over the years. Because of this close association with Coffee-House Poetry and its organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe, editor of Magma issue 36, we thought you would like to know about this competition. By entering, you help to support its work with live literature, and there’s always the chance of winning one of the prizes!
Judged by Gwyneth Lewis and Maurice Riordan, with both judges reading all poems.
1st £1000, 2nd £500, 3rd £250
& 20 prizes of £20 each
Plus a spring 2011 coffee-house poetry season ticket and a prizewinners’ coffee-house poetry reading with Gwyneth Lewis and Maurice Riordan on mon 29th nov 2010 for all prize-winning poets.
Submissions by Fri 15th oct 2010
We at Magma were thrilled last week when the Forward Poetry Prize shortlists were announced. One of the poems shortlisted for the Best Single Poem prize, is Julia Copus’ ‘An easy passage’ – first published in Magma 45. The fact…
The Magma Sales Table, being looked after by Jacqueline Saphra Magma Poetry sponsored the reading by Philip Gross and Gillian Clarke that took place during the Ledbury Poetry Festival during the first half of July. Jacqueline Saphra and I, on…
Musing on the process of editorship this morning after the the launch of our spring issue, I was amused to discover that the production time of an issue of Magma from conception to delivery is not much short of nine…
All of seventeen years chairing the Magma group, eleven years presenting our launches at the Coffee House Poetry sessions at the Troubadour – hard to believe it. And now I bow out, at our AGM at the end of March.…
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