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…
Magma 69 at the Southbank Centre
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…
Magma Poetry in Collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and the Festival of Creative Learning — Submissions Now Closed
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…
[SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED] Call for Submission: Magma 71 — The Film Issue
The submissions window for ‘Film’ is open from October 1st 2017 until January 31st 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…
Magma at Poetry in Aldeburgh
Magma workshop & Open Mic SATURDAY 4th NOVEMBER 10am - 12pm | FREE | GARAGE GALLERY Magma team members Susannah Hart & Lisa Kelly will offer a lively event reading, writing and enjoying poetry. Magma is delighted to be hosting…
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