We're delighted to congratulate Lorraine Mariner on being nominated for the 2009 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Furniture (Picador). Magma was the first national magazine to publish Lorraine's poems in the early 2000s and we arranged some of…
I'm thrilled and excited to be editing Magma 46 with Norbert Hirschhorn as assistant editor. This issue will be launched in Spring 2010 and the theme is Hunger in all its possible manifestations. I hope that it will inspire some…
Magma Poetry is on the road again, this time taking a trip to the lovely Ledbury Poetry Festival. We're proud to be sponsoring a reading by Ros Barber and Glyn Maxwell. Glyn recently featured in Magma in our 'Presiding Spirits'…
I invited each of the four publishers who were shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award to answer a few questions. Peter Hughes from Oystercatcher Press (winner of the award) was first to respond. Now Helena Nelson from HappenStance shares her…
I was pleased to see the creation in 2009 of the Michael Marks Awards, with generous £5000 prizes for an often overlooked area of poetry publishing – the pamphlet. The award ceremony was held on 24 June 2009. Congratulations to…
What a varied and exciting evening as we launched Magma 44 into the summer with a splash. On what felt like the hottest night of the year, the cellar of The Troubadour was packed with poetry lovers. The contributors who…
Don't miss the launch reading for Magma 44, edited by Tim Kindberg and Rosie Shepperd, on Monday 22 June at The Troubadour, Earl’s Court, London. We are delighted to have two leading poets as guest readers: Imtiaz Dharker, poet, artist…
In this week's excellent episode of 'A Poet's Guide to Britain' on the BBC, the poet Clare Pollard is interviewed by Owen Sheers about Sylvia Plath's landscape poetry. Clare is a member of the Magma team and is currently editing Magma 45, which will be launched in November 2009.
The episode will be available on iPlayer for the next month - watch it online here or you can catch it on on BBC4, Thursday 14th May at 22.00. If you're in a hurry, you may like to know that Clare first appears 4 minutes into the programme, but it's well worth taking the time to watch the whole programme.
Warm congratulations from Magma to Carol Ann Duffy on her appointment as the UK's new Poet Laureate, announced today. In a refreshing break from tradition, it won't have escaped anyone's notice that Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate since…
So the Magma Roadshow is now back from the magazine fair at the fantastic Scottish poetry festival, StAnza up in Saint Andrews and there's a podcast to prove we were really there. Click to listen to the interview The Magma…
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