Magma 91, In The Flesh, edited by Victoria Kennefick and Aoife Lyall
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Flesh. Embodied, consumed. Flesh. Embraced, ridiculed. How differently each of us comes to this word, how many things we take from it, how weighed down it has become with social, cultural, ecological, political and religious meanings and agendas…
Magma Selected: Catherine Redford
Poems
| Rosamund Taylor | It’s Not Going to Happen for Us |
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| Rowan Lyster | Naked mole-rats |
| PASCALE PETIT | Hide (Red Crayfish Claws and a Glossy Ibis) |
| CATHERINE REDFORD | My uterus as a haunted house |
| Ian Humphreys | Rabbit in a drystone wall |
| Luke Morgan | A Brief History of Blood |
Articles
| Magma 91: Editorial | 9 months. That is how long it takes, to make a baby. 9 months. That is how long it has taken for this issue of Magma to arrive, from the earliest days of the submission window in July 2024 to the launch in April 2025. The responsibility of bringing it into the world, the expectations… |
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| Words and Worlds: Writing Advice (extract) | If I have anything useful to say to writers of poetry, I can think of no better starting point for it than the theme of this issue: In the Flesh. Not that your poems must be visceral or bodily (although this is often, probably to a fault, the case with my own work), but rather… |
| Tables (extract) | These past few years, we have all learned to speak in the dialect of our houses. The strange corners we know to navigate in the dark as we go to the kitchen for a glass of water; the creaks that come steady as the seasons. I am reminded of all this as I flick through… |
Issue information
In The Flesh — Table of Contents 
Supported by Arts Council England