Poetry and Architecture event at Cambridge Poetry Festival

Join us for an evening of poetry and architecture!

Join us for the launch of Magma 95: Architecture, a special issue of the celebrated poetry magazine exploring the resonant intersections of poetry and the built environment. Hosted by co-editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg, this intimate evening brings together poets and architects for readings and conversation about space, memory, language and dwelling. The issue features a specially commissioned cover by artist Pablo Bronstein and a crown of sonnets developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge and The New School, exploring ideas of home, rooms within rooms, and diasporic experience.

This event is proudly put on in collaboration with the Cambridge Poetry Festival

Book your tickets:
Magma 95, Architecture: Cambridge Launch

—Saturday, October 17 • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
—Pembroke Auditorium, Cambridge
—Book your tickets here: Magma 95: Cambridge Launch 

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Confirmed Readers and Participants:

Poets

Jane Allssopp confronts climate change in are we separating?

Lucy Allssopp tests the invisible boundaries of a room

Mina Gorji tries out an earthquake machine

Helen Pletts imagines the poet as a half-frozen river

Judith Rawnsley enters a cathedral of vaulted halls

Laura Scott enters into conversation with Virginia Woolf

Claudine Toutougni responds to the work of Carmen Papalia

Features and collaborations

Five architecture scholars: Emma Cheatle, Kitya Mark, Anat Messing, Irit Katz and Jilly Traganou, present a collaborative sonnet sequence exploring architecture through poetry.

Sarah Westcott introduces a collaboration that raises questions about artistic freedom and control.

Rebecca Wober uncovers surprising connections between the architecture of King’s College Chapel and the letters of Sylvia Plath.