Magma Selected: Alison Binney
Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems.
Our Selected Poet for Magma 85 is Alison Binney and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Poems for Schools issue of Magma. We hope you enjoy.
Alison Binney has taught in secondary schools for 25 years, and also teaches on the Cambridge PGCE English course. Her debut pamphlet, Other Women’s Kitchens, won the Mslexia Pamphlet Competition.
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Audio
Alison Binney reads five poems
1. The hard miles
2. Sestina for a lost boi
3. Ditton meadow
4. 38.7 degrees
5. Inside the house of delirium
6. Pandemic recovery plan
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Read the poems in Magma 85
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