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Contents Regular Features Competition Inspired Rachael Allen responds to Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 15 Selected Catherine Redford 61 Close Reading Zoë Brigley reviews Gboyega Odubanjo, Jen Campbell and Sasha Dugdale 93 Tom Branfoot reviews Ali Lewis, Martin Figura and Caroline Bird 97 Laurie Smith reviews Michael Longley, Clementine E Burnley and Hannah Copley 100 Shalini Sengupta reviews Gustav Parker Hibbett, Niall Campbell and Len Pennie 103 Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024 The Man Who Made Up Trees 50 Michael Greavy Lefcovitch / Lewis 51 Rachel Lewis Double Weave 52 John Kefala Kerr IV. After Stefanie Sun’s (Encounter) 53 Jerrold Yam The Articles Table David Toms 25 Words and Worlds: Writing Advice Amy Acre 41 Well and Decent: A Tribute to Gboyega Odubanjo 78 Aoife Lyall, Joe Carrick-Varty, Cheryl Moskowitz, Lisa Kelly, Kareem Parkins-Brown The Poems Wolves 8 Sarah Corbett Big Head/Small Head Claudine Toutoungi Elegy On Ritual 9 10 Jacqueline Zalace My Mother’s Daughter 11 Moniza Alvi The severed limb lost to the piano has achieved sentience (American remake of a cult classic) 12 Sam Grudgings Quartered 13 Jessica Traynor Me Plus 14 Julie Morrissy Heatwave 18 Christina Lloyd The Recovery 19 Martina Dalton A French Doll Instead of a Left Lung 20 Eve Ellis Madam Gout 21 Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana Pet deer 24 Nasim Luczaj home 28 Dillon Jaxx Woman, Sick 28 Jessica Boatright Rabbit in a drystone wall 30 Ian Humphreys 6
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Entry Milena Williamson Before twelve weeks 30 31 Carson Wolfe My grief is a house (where I still love you) 32 Mariah Whelan Reading the Bones Philip Gross The Body 33 36 Jess Mookherjee Usual Erasures 37 Ranudi Gunawardena Naked mole-rats Rowan Lyster Stay Quiet 38 39 Molly Twomey how i dance in my 50s 40 Katrina Naomi Seven-Part Postmodern Sonnet on Parallelism 44 Sneha Subramanian Kanta Sarcolemma (or Getting Back Out There) 47 Rachel Long Hide (My Birth) 48 Pascale Petit Hide (Red Crayfish Claws and a Glossy Ibis) 49 Pascale Petit Let Them Construct A Sanctuary For Me 54 Elizabeth Pywell Leichen Wäsche Rilke Corpse-Washing 55 55 Translated from the German by John Greening Bottom of the Barrel 56 Naomi Foyle I try to check the overflow 56 Fiona Larkin Finding a strand of my mother’s hair 57 Fae Wolfe the dreaming: notes on a six am silent disco 58 Michael Pederson [Sloth] 59 Kate Wakeling Acceptance 60 Helen Sedgwick Climacteric 65 Rebecca Hurst How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All 66 Michael Conley Cordon Bleu 67 Adam Gellings Consumption 68 Adam Gianforcaro Body/Stone 70 Annemarie Austin Elegy for Jan 71 Sheila Black Old Drunks 72 Jo Bratten Juniper 73 John Glenday Still Life with Cuttlefish Risotto 74 Billy Ramsell Confessional 76 Hélène Demetriades A Brief History of Blood 77 Luke Morgan Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus 85 Jacqueline Saphra Museo del Oro 86 Christopher Watson Hey presto 88 Catherine Gander This does not feel like charity 89 Naoise Gale It’s Not Going to Happen for Us 90 Rosamund Taylor Letter After the Diagnosis 91 Taylor Hamann Los For Ready 92 Hiram Larew Contributors’ Notes About Magma Subscription Form 106 109 110 7

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Contents

Regular Features Competition

Inspired

Rachael Allen responds to Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

15

Selected

Catherine Redford

61

Close Reading Zoë Brigley reviews Gboyega Odubanjo, Jen Campbell and Sasha Dugdale 93 Tom Branfoot reviews Ali Lewis, Martin Figura and Caroline Bird 97 Laurie Smith reviews Michael Longley, Clementine E Burnley and Hannah Copley 100 Shalini Sengupta reviews Gustav Parker Hibbett, Niall Campbell and Len Pennie 103

Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024 The Man Who Made Up Trees 50 Michael Greavy Lefcovitch / Lewis 51 Rachel Lewis Double Weave 52 John Kefala Kerr IV. After Stefanie Sun’s (Encounter) 53 Jerrold Yam

The Articles

Table

David Toms

25

Words and Worlds: Writing Advice

Amy Acre

41

Well and Decent: A Tribute to Gboyega Odubanjo 78 Aoife Lyall, Joe Carrick-Varty, Cheryl Moskowitz, Lisa Kelly, Kareem Parkins-Brown

The Poems

Wolves

8

Sarah Corbett Big Head/Small Head

Claudine Toutoungi Elegy On Ritual

9

10

Jacqueline Zalace My Mother’s Daughter

11

Moniza Alvi The severed limb lost to the piano has achieved sentience (American remake of a cult classic) 12 Sam Grudgings Quartered 13 Jessica Traynor Me Plus 14 Julie Morrissy Heatwave 18 Christina Lloyd The Recovery 19 Martina Dalton A French Doll Instead of a Left Lung 20 Eve Ellis Madam Gout 21 Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana Pet deer 24 Nasim Luczaj home 28 Dillon Jaxx Woman, Sick 28 Jessica Boatright Rabbit in a drystone wall 30 Ian Humphreys

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