Magma 92, Ownership, edited by Danne Jobin, Kathy Pimlott, and Paul Stephenson
The call for poems on the theme of ‘Ownership’ summoned work from far and wide and opened the door to a great range of interpretations – from the expected, on homes and homelands or lack of them, through dogs, languages and language, pickpockets, non-fungible tokens, marriage, lederhosen, all the way to peahens and runaway breasts. Rich pickings for us as editors, both in content and form.
Poems
| Maeve McKenna | Moving On |
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| Nathan Evans | Blitz Club and Caravan |
| Anna Bowles | Translating Mariupol Diaries |
| Robin Helweg-Larsen | Buccaneer |
| Siobhan Ward | When I saw Vivienne Westwood in Battersea Park |
| Jane Burn | Why all dogs are kind |
Articles
| Magma 92, Editorial | The call for poems on the theme of ‘Ownership’ summoned work from far and wide and opened the door to a great range of interpretations – from the expected, on homes and homelands or lack of them, through dogs, languages and language, pickpockets, non-fungible tokens, marriage, lederhosen, all the way to peahens and runaway breasts.… |
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| How Human-Generated Poetry Can Survive AI | Who owns poetry? Or rather, who does poetry belong to? Let’s say that poetry belongs to the people who read and write it. Until recently, this group consisted solely of human beings and Koko the gorilla . Today this group has expanded to include Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as DeepSeekAI and ChatGPT, which have… |
| Ownership, Colonization and the Ghazal | The ghazal can be a lie the poet tells themselves, a fragment of mysterium’s imagination. The ghazal is compounded fate — something broken open singing of irretrievable loss — the kind that can only be known by those who lost their homes, their lands, their identity, their everything. The ghazal is a diorama of the… |
Issue information
Ownership — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England