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Blog Review 25 – Geoff Sawers Reviews Six Pamphlets, Part 2 20 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
Chrissy Williams – Flying Into The Bear (Happenstance) £4 Donald Mackay – On Time (Mariscat) £5 Ben Parker – The Escape Artists (tall-lighthouse) £4 These three pamphlets are all more conventional ...
Blog Review 24 – Geoff Sawers Reviews Six Pamphlets: Part 1 13 Aug 2013 | 01:52 pm
Robert Peake – The Silence Teacher (Poetry Salzburg) £4 Martin Figura – Arthur (Nasty Little Press) £5 Rachel Piercey – The Flower and the Plough. Love Poems. (Emma Press) £4.99 In consistently eve...
Call for submissions for Magma 58: The Music of Words 31 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
We want to explore the music of poetry – not necessarily poetry about music as in Magma 53, but music within poetry. We would like to receive poems where the meaning is expressed or strengthened by th...
Machi Tawara at Ledbury Festival – Sunday 14th July 10 Jul 2013 | 05:48 pm
If you’re heading to the Ledbury Poetry Festival this weekend you have a very rare opportunity to hear a reading by one of Japan’s most celebrated poets. Machi Tawara‘s first book of poems, Salad Ann...
2013 Magma Poetry Competition – all the information on this year’s competition 24 Jun 2013 | 10:56 pm
Magma Poetry is delighted to announce that this year’s competition will open for entries on 16 October 2013. As before the competition will have two contests and a wonderful judge but, as well as publ...
Blog Review 23 – Helen Mort Reviews W.N. Herbert’s ‘Omnesia’ 24 Jun 2013 | 12:51 pm
Omnesia is remarkable for being not one book but two – a ‘remix’ and an ‘alternative text’ – and W.N. Herbert prefaces both with an apology to the reader for requiring them to deal with two mirror tex...
Blog Review 22: Andrew Philip reviews ‘Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill’ by John F. Deane 14 May 2013 | 03:13 pm
Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill presents poems from each of John F Deane’s previous five Carcanet collections alongside the substantial new title sequence. The opening piece, ‘In Dedication’, sets the t...
Blog Review 21: Padraig Rooney reviews ‘Death Comes for the Poets’ by Matthew Sweeney & John Hartley Williams 25 Mar 2013 | 05:33 pm
Some time around 1981, I shared a bottle of British Council bubbly with the satiric writer Tom Sharpe, author of the Wilt books. He was telling me his father had been a fervent supporter of the Nation...
Blog Review 20: Bethany W Pope Reviews Stephanie Norgate’s ‘The Blue Den’ 12 Mar 2013 | 02:22 pm
Stephanie Norgate’s collection, The Blue Den, is a thoughtful study of the people and things which inhabit the edges of the conventional society. The poems are so well constructed that the reader beco...
Call for submissions for Magma 57: The Shape of the Poem 2 Mar 2013 | 02:57 am
Poetry is a shaping of words and that shape can often be seen on the page. At the most basic level, lines that turn before they reach the margin are an early cue for us to treat text as poem. In Magma...
