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 web site. 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 various jobs that needed to be done.
They decided that each issue should have a different editor but, for continuity, each editor is advised by the editors of the previous and subsequent issues. 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. We feel that this arrangement works because we have a similar idea
of what makes a good poem.
Magma 26, like its predecessor, takes its theme from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, Questions of Travel. As Editor Mick Delap explains in his article, A question of travel – poetry of dislocation, he has focussed on poems that explore the physical and emotional dislocation of leaving, and returning, home. Unusually for Magma, themed poems take up the whole of this edition
The launch reading for Magma 26 is on Monday 2 June at 7.30 for 8pm in the Coffee-House Poetry series at the Troubadour, 265 Old Brompton Road, London SW5. Poets published in Magma 26 read their work together with guest readers Carole Satyamurti and Mimi Khalvati. Admission £5.50 (£4.50 concessions).
Magma 27 (October 2003) is being edited by Tim Robertson who would like to receive poems on same-sex relationships – lovers, family or friends. Poems on other themes are, of course, welcome.
Contributions by the end of July 2003. The launch reading for Magma 27 will be in October or November.
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 various jobs that needed to be done.
They decided that each issue should have a different editor but, for continuity, each editor is advised by the editors of the previous and subsequent issues. 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. We feel that this arrangement works because we have a similar idea
of what makes a good poem.
Magma 26, like its predecessor, takes its theme from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, Questions of Travel. As Editor Mick Delap explains in his article, A question of travel – poetry of dislocation, he has focussed on poems that explore the physical and emotional dislocation of leaving, and returning, home. Unusually for Magma, themed poems take up the whole of this edition
The launch reading for Magma 26 is on Monday 2 June at 7.30 for 8pm in the Coffee-House Poetry series at the Troubadour, 265 Old Brompton Road, London SW5. Poets published in Magma 26 read their work together with guest readers Carole Satyamurti and Mimi Khalvati. Admission £5.50 (£4.50 concessions).
Magma 27 (October 2003) is being edited by Tim Robertson who would like to receive poems on same-sex relationships – lovers, family or friends. Poems on other themes are, of course, welcome.
Contributions by the end of July 2003. The launch reading for Magma 27 will be in October or November.
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