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Magma was at StAnza last weekend.  It was super friendly, with many excellent events.  There were some interludes of heavenly StAnza weather (proof in the photos).  We’d reprinted the sold-out Climate Change Issue, partly with the festival in mind.  It…

We had 430 replies to the Big Survey.  Thank you very much to everyone who took part.  One lucky person won a free subscription (announced on Twitter). The survey had some messages for us… The clearest one was that people…

Here's a poem by Rishi Dastidar.  Thucydides, historian of ancient Greece, chronicler of the violent struggle between Athens and Sparta in the late 5th century BC, and his trap.  Relevant?  Oh yes.  The trap is as nasty as the tone…

Sometimes readers react to ‘subject matter’ over the activity of the poem. They feel anything remotely ‘political’ to be polemical and thus didactic. They feel they “know this information already, so why do they need it in a poem”. That…

Poetry is a universal language, in which we can all hope to meet. Ted Hughes  Sometimes we meet as readers: so the poet will read a science article, the conservationist a poem, we trespass out of our artforms and disciplines…

After a tantalising three months of correspondence with James Cropper Papermill, not to be able to source paper from their recycled range for Magma 72 was a disappointing blow, but it wasn’t exactly a dead-end. Our contact encouraged me to…