Calls for submissions

When we set 'risk' as a theme, we had a rough idea of what we'd hope to see: poems pushing both form and content to the edges of what's considered to be the normal range. We rightly anticipated that this…

Magma has changed to Submittable. Please follow this link to submit. For the next issue of Magma we've chosen the theme of 'Risk'. We're aware that risk is in itself a risky word. It is open to interpretation. And what…

‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland At Magma, we’ve been talking. As you know we’re having a National Conversation (about poetry) and we want you to share your poems…

We settled on 'violence' as the theme for Magma 62 since it seemed a stark contrast to the "big safe themes", as Paul Farley might call them, that sprang easily to mind. Violence felt bold and a little bit different…

Magma’s original meaning in Greek is ‘mixture’ and so the theme of ‘the street’ seems a fitting reflection of our magazine’s ambition to represent the widest mix of poetry, from the formal to the informal, the mainstream to the margins.  The…

‘fine black thread still crimped from the strain and snap when it broke and he got away.’ – from The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Magma 59 is being edited by Roberta James with Alex Pryce and we are inviting poems…

We want to explore the music of poetry – not necessarily poetry about music as in Magma 53, but music within poetry. We would like to receive poems where the meaning is expressed or strengthened by the sound of the…

Poetry is a shaping of words and that shape can often be seen on the page. At the most basic level, lines that turn before they reach the margin are an early cue for us to treat text as poem…