We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2022/23 Poetry Competition Read the poems here ** Winner of the JUDGE’S PRIZE judged by Victoria Kennefick Ben Rogers The Escape Second Prize: Jonathan Edwards Penguins Third Prize: Ilse Pedler When…
Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems. Our Selected Poet for Magma 85 is Alison Binney and we are delighted to be…
* Designing the cover image for Magma 85 was set as a task for the A Level Photography class at Fortismere School, North London, by their teacher Guy Holden. The students produced a marvellous range of images from which the…
Editors Niall Campbell, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Fiona Moore welcome poems that haven’t been previously published in print or online, on the theme of Islands. We also hope to discover poems by island poets around the world, from Madagascar to…
FOOD: Magma x Vittles "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it.” Julia Child Food is one of the great commonalities. No matter who we are, or where or when we're from,…
We were lucky to have multidisciplinary designer Emmi Hughes creating the cover or Magma 84, on the theme of physics. Here, Magma Editors, Stav Poleg and Susannah Hart, talk with Emmi about the process of creating the work. Magma: The…
Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems. Our Selected Poet for Magma 84 is Lucy Allsopp and we are delighted to…
The Magma 2022/23 Poetry Competition is now open for entries in both categories. The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines *** Magma’s 2022/23 poetry competitions are now…
From Magma 83, Solitude Read the review here: Sophie Thomas reviews Padraig Regan, Anne Ryland and Dan O’Brien
From Magma 83, Solitude Read the review here: Sana Goyal reviews Agnieszka Studzińska, Stephanie Sy-Quia and Ishaq Imruh Bakari
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