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Our Mission Statement Magma is unique in that each issue has a different theme and different editors. The editorship circulates among the group that runs the magazine, with frequent guest editors. This allows us greater diversity of editorship, opportunities for mentoring new editors and publication of a very wide range of work. These themes aim to speak back to the world through the best in contemporary poetry, housing established poets alongside new or little-known names. We present poems which value experimentation, ambition, and craft. Alongside poetry we include reviews of current publications and thought-provoking prose. We are committed to being a part of a truly inclusive world of poetry and understand the power of language in helping to explore, study and question the realities we live in. Our aim is to present, through poetry, the many ways that we live and create today. Magma is published three times a year in spring, summer and winter. Views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of the Magma Board. Copyright remains with the individual authors. 4 4 Magma Poetry is a registered charity number 1141075 About the editors: Leo Boix’s first English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant, was a PBS Wild Card Choice. He has won the Keats-Shelley Prize and awards from PEN, Bart Wolffe, The Society of Authors Foundation and the K Blundell Trust. Ella Duffy is the author of Rootstalk (Hazel Press) and New Hunger (Smith| Doorstop). Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine and The Rialto, among others. Kate Simpson has edited for Aesthetica, Faber, Valley Press, and AMBIT. Her 2021 anthology, Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency, was a Guardian Book of the Year. She is currently based at the University of Leeds as part of the UK’s first Extinction Studies Doctoral Training programme. Magma 89 (Summer 2024) is edited by Mariam Chaudhri, David Floyd and Josiane Smith. The theme is Performance. Contributions are now closed. Magma 90 (Winter 2024) is edited by Lisa Kelly and Patrizia Longhitano. The theme is Grassroots. Contributions are open until the 31st of March. To buy Magma Please use the order form at the back of the issue or buy online at magmapoetry.com/buy-magma. Available in selected bookshops and in digital version through Exact Editions – magmapoetry.com/digital. Contributing to Magma You are welcome to send us up to four unpublished poems by Submittable or, if you live in the UK, by post to Magma Poetry, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton, SM5 4ES. We regret we cannot accept more than one submission per issue. Submissions by Submittable are acknowledged on receipt, postal submissions when a decision has been made. We aim to notify submitters of decisions within a month of an issue’s submission window closing. Poems are considered for one issue only. Other correspondence and enquiries to info@magmapoetry.com or our postal address above, except for review copies which should be sent to our Reviews Editor, Aoife Lyall. Contact her in the first instance at reviews@magmapoetry.com magmapoetry.com – Our website includes selections of poems and articles in Magma and details of how to submit, subscribe and order back copies.

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