Gautam Naik
Editorial
The poetry we stand for is, broadly speaking, contemporary in idiom rather than of the past, rough in texture rather than smooth, specific in imagery rather than general. But we have never defined it as a matter of rigid editorial policy, because we believe good poetry has a way of evading all creeds, whether aesthetic or political.
Established poets send us poems and give us interviews. But we are particularly interested in finding and publishing new poets. Our contributions come from all over the world. We run special features from time to time - recently, poems from San Francisco. We hold poetry readings when new issues come out, and invite the poets in that issue to read. Currently, the readings are held at the Troubadour poetry café in London. Magma is also published on the World Wide Web, at http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~timk/Magma.
Magma is unusual in being run by a group rather than an individual. A few poets of similar affiliations got together, shared out among themselves the various jobs that needed to be done, and decided each issue should have a different editor, not always from among themselves. Members of the group have come and gone over time, but our way of operating remains the same. We have been running for four years, with a steadily widening readership and range of contributors.
We would like to thank Nat West Bank for their generous support for this issue.
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- 10th Muse
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The