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This is a brief reminder that the launch reading for Magma 43 is next Monday 2 March at The Troubadour, Earl's Court. Our guest readers are Glyn Maxwell, whose poetry collections have attracted awards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize…

Here's a date for your diary -- 2 March at The Troubadour, Earl's Court, for the launch reading of Magma 43, edited by David Boll and Andrew Neilson. We are delighted to welcome two distinguish guest readers: Glyn Maxwell, whose poetry collections have attracted awards including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (for The Nerve, 2004) and whose latest collection, Hide Now, was shortlisted for the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize; and John Stammers, whose first collection Panoramic Lounge Bar won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection (2001), and whose second, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Regular Magma readers will also recall the terrific issue John delivered for us as guest editor of Magma 31. The launch will also feature readings by many other poets published in Magma 43, The reading will start at 8 pm sharp, at The Troubadour Coffee House, 265 Old Brompton Road SW5 (near Earl's Court Tube). Tickets are £6.50 / £5.50 concessions.

And so it was that a bunch of poetry lovers gathered on a freezing and dark evening in the cosy poetry section of Borders to listen to three poets who have been published in Magma read their work. We sell…

Launches of Magma Poetry always have the feeling of An Occasion. The launch of Magma 42 perhaps even more than usual; we had planned it as a celebration of the newly refreshed Magma - bigger, better and with an enhanced…

Here's your chance to meet two of Magma's editors, Laurie Smith and Tim Robertson and hear them in discussion with three poets who have been published in Magma: gifted and gorgeous Clare Pollard, enigmatic and exciting Linda Black, and passionate…

We hope to see you at The Troubadour tonight (Mon 17 Nov), for the launch reading for Magma 42 . Our guest readers are Blake Morrison and Vicki Feaver. As usual many of the contributors to the magazine will also…

Don’t miss the launch reading for Magma 42 on Monday 17th November at 8pm at The Troubadour, Old Brompton Road (entry £6/5) As well as the usual readings from a cornucopia of great poets published in Magma 42, you can…