Calls for submissions

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.…

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.” – Walter Pater “If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.” – Gustav Mahler The editors for…

I’m excited to be Editor of Magma 52 with Helen Nicholson as Assistant Editor, and the theme for the issue is “putting on the mask”. I chose this theme because all of us from time to time put on a…

I'm pleased to be editing Magma 51, with Ian McEwen as assistant editor. We invite you to send us your poems on the theme 'Profane and Sacred'. Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. writes Carol Ann…

I’m pleased to be editing the 50th issue of Magma, with Mary Tymkow as assistant editor. We’re planning some special celebratory features, and thinking about the distance Magma has travelled has inspired our theme. I invite you to submit poems…