Magma
Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in summer, autumn and winter, with a selection on our website. We look for poems which give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about the world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.
Magma is unusual in being run by a small group rather than an individual. Several writers with a roughly similar view of poetry got together and shared out the tasks. They decided that each issue should have a different editor. The strength of the rotating editorship is that each editor brings his/her particular interests to bear, resulting in poems and emphases that no-one else in the group could have predicted.
David Boll, editor of Magma 29, lives and writes in London, as does Karen Green, the designer.
The launch reading for Magma 29 is at 8 pm on Monday 21 June 2004 in the Coffee-House Poetry series at the Troubadour Coffee House, 265 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 (email CoffPoetry @aol.com). The nearest tube station is Earl's Court. The guest poets are Moniza Alvi, Anne-Marie Fyfe and E.A. Markham. Admission is the normal Coffee-House charge of £5.50 (£4.50 concessions).
Magma 30 (November 2004) will be edited by Karen Green. Magma is working with the leading mental health charity, Sane, to celebrate World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2004 and, for Magma 30, Karen seeks poems that reflect this subject in a positive way. She also welcomes poems on anniversaries and any other subject.
Magma 31 (February 2005) will have John Stammers as Guest Editor. He invites poems that respond to the visual arts, as well as on other topics.
Anniversary Reading
We plan to hold a special reading in January 2005 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Magma. Details in Magma 30.
Ordering Magma
An order form for subscribing to or buying copies of Magma is included at the back of the magazine.
Contributing to Magma
We welcome unpublished poems and original artwork by post or email. Contribution deadlines for the three issues are the end of February, mid-July and the end of October. Poems are considered for one issue only, not held over from one issue to another. We
write to all contributors as soon as a decision is made. Postal contributions must be accompanied by an s.a.e. if posted in the UK and with sufficient International Reply Coupons if posted from abroad. The contributor's name must appear on each page or
image. Contributions to: David Boll, Editorial Secretary. By post: Magma, 43 Keslake Road, London NW6 6DH
By e-mail: [email protected]
www:magmapoetry.com
Our website contains a selection of Magma poems and articles, and details of how to submit poems, subscribe to Magma and order back copies. We are developing the site to include a debating
room and other interactive features for our subscribers.
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