This is your last chance to enter the Magma Poetry Competition 2014/15! Magma’s Poetry Competition has two contests, one for short poems of up to 10 lines, and one for poems of 11 to 50 lines. Poems of 11 to 50 lines…
If you still need an extra push to enter the 2014/15 Magma Poetry Competition, then poet Christine Webb has written a specially commissioned poem on the scary theme of deadlines to help you beat 19th January! Christine Webb's first collection, After Babel, was published in…
Newcastle's Lit & Phil isn't easy to describe. It's a beautiful building that harbours expansive rooms, mezzanines, corridors and hideaways, bookshelves against every wall packed with books. The photos below will give a flavour but I'd advise anyone to check…
Tonight (Thurs 11 December 2014) is the Newcastle launch of Magma 60. If you're in the vicinity, do come along to the Lit & Phil (23 Westgate Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 1SE) at 7pm for a…
Freedom is a word so big, or so close to us, that perhaps we don't even see it. Certainly the poems that arrived in response to our call for poems on the theme of 'Freedom' were so various that often we couldn't…
As part of our Winchester Poetry Festival activities to launch our National Conversation about poetry, Magma ran a pop-up poetry competition on the theme of 'nationhood'. The competition was won outright by Dom Cramp for his poem, The Broken English…
With the support of Arts Council England, Magma – one of Britain's leading poetry magazines – is launching a ‘National Conversation’ about poetry, to explore what it is and what it means to people today - in all its many expressions. More than…
Join us for an evening of poetry and a celebration of at our regional launch Upstairs at the Western in Leicester, Thursday July 17th. Lorraine Mariner and Kathryn Gray will be joined by other poets from the issue. Drinks are available from the…
Magma 59 will be launched at two venues. In London, the launch will take place at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL on Friday 27 June. Doors open at 6.30pm with readings 7 to 9pm with Colette Bryce and Lorraine…
Magma 58 was launched for the first time at the London Review of Books. If you weren’t able to attend the launch, or would simply like to hear the evening again, you can now listen to a podcast of the…
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