The Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020
** The 2020 pamphlet competition is now closed. Many thanks to all who entered. Results will be announced October/November. ** Judged by Mary Jean Chan Deadine: 10 August 2020 Magma invites you to enter our second pamphlet competition. We are…
Poetry competition event — update
Dear Magma Friends, Supporters and Subscribers, We are very sorry to have to let you know that our Magma 2019/20 Poetry Event to be held at the Poetry Cafe on 18 March next Wednesday has been cancelled. We discussed this…
Magma Poetry Competition 2019/20 — Winners Announced
Magma Poetry is excited to announce the winners and commended poets for its 2019/20 Poetry Competition for both the Judge's Prize and the Editors' Prize. Many thanks to everyone who entered our annual Competition. Our Judge Caroline Bird and Magma…
Magma 75 – Film
Magma 75 editors Yvonne Reddick and Adam Lowe discuss the editing process and writing about loss. They are joined by contributor Jessica Sneddon, who talks about what it means to be published in Magma and the transition from studying creative…
[SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED] Call for submission— Magma 78, Collaborations
The submissions window for ‘Collaborations’ is open from 1st February – 31st March 2020. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. One piece of work from your collaborations of up to 140 lines…
Magma 25th anniversary
Poets, guests and Magma Board members past and present gathered on 29th November 2019 to celebrate 25 years of publishing Magma. We met at the Concert Artistes’ Association in Covent Garden which had recently been refurbished and is very splendid.…
[SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED] Call for Submission — Magma 77, Act Your Age
* The submissions window for ‘Act Your Age’ is open from 1st November – 31st December 2019. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Up to 4 poems may be sent via Submittable,…
Magma 75, Loss — London Launch!
Sat, 23 November 2019 14:30 – 17:00 GMT Exmouth Market Centre Exmouth Market London EC1R 4QE Book your free tickets here * At the launch of The Loss Issue, we'll celebrate the past, memorialise the lost and look to the…
Marina Dora Martino Reviews ‘Girlhood’ by Julia Copus
Girlhood is an anthology of objects and ephemera – hallways, windows, televisions, shadows, bonfires, the hissing of rain. They are not a chaotic congregation, but rather nexuses of a convoluted poetic neurosystem. Julia Copus’s multiple narrators, who share an urgent,…
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