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,…
Magma Poetry is going to be hosting its first Online Meet-the-Editors Q&A session via Twitter on Friday 3 June at 1.00 p.m. British Summer Time (12 noon GMT) for about an hour. And we welcome questions and queries – on…
If you weren't able to attend the launch of Magma 49, you can still listen to poems read on the night by some of the contributors to Magma 49. These recordings are introduced by Julia Bird, the Magma 49 editor…
Magma 49 is from the Magma website and in bookshops. The issue is edited by Julia Bird with the theme ‘Build It Up and Knock It Down'. Don’t miss the Magma 49 launch reading on Monday 14 March at The…
I’d never been to a Magma launch before, so I was looking forward to it, even the journey south. I took the so-called Quiet Carriage on the Edinburgh-London train, thinking I’d have the opportunity to make notes on a book…
Magma 48 is now available to and in bookshops. The issue is edited by Laurie Smith, assisted by Rob MacKenzie, with the theme ‘It was beautiful’. Don’t miss the Magma 48 launch reading on Monday 15 November at The Troubadour,…
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…
The Forward Prizes were awarded last Wednesday evening. All of us at Magma were delighted that Julia Copus won the £1000 award for Best Poem for An Easy Passage, which was published in Magma 45, edited by Clare Pollard. Laurie…
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…
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