About Us

Magma is distinct from other poetry magazines because each issue has a different editor. The editorship circulates among the group that runs the magazine, with an occasional guest editor.

Each editor brings his or her particular interests to bear, resulting in poems and emphases that no one else in the group could have predicted.

The group is united by its commitment to the best in contemporary poetry, whether from new or little-known poets or the more established. 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.

Magma includes reviews of current publications and thought-provoking prose. The views expressed are those of the individual authors. Magma seeks to be a forum for debate, not to present a single Magma view.

We publish three times a year in spring, summer and winter,

with a selection of poems and articles on our website.

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Magma Poetry is a registered charity number 1141075

About the editors:

Matt Howard lives in Norwich where he works for the RSPB. His first full collection, Gall, was published by The Rialto earlier this year.

Fiona Moore’s first collection The Distal Point has just come out from HappenStance and is a PBS Recommendation for Autumn 2018.

Eileen Pun’s interdisciplinary work includes textiles, martial arts, permaculture & natural construction. Recent commission: Longways / Crosswise, Morecambe Bay

Local Nature Partnership.

Magma 73 (Spring 2019) is edited by Ella Frears and Richard Scott. The theme is Changeling. Contributions are now closed.

Magma 74 (Summer 2019) is edited by Benedict Newbery and Pauline Seward. The theme is Work. Contributions will be welcome later in 2018. Please see our website for more information.

We are grateful to Arts Council England for funding. Special thanks to Cambridge Conservation Initiative for their support in kind for this issue, and to paper company G.F Smith for providing us with paper for the cover at a much reduced rate.

To buy Magma

Please use the order form at the back of the issue or buy online at www.magmapoetry.com/buy-magma Available in selected bookshops and in digital version through Exact Editions – see page 101.

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You are welcome to send us up to four unpublished poems by Submittable or, if you live in the UK, by post to Magma Poetry, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton, SM5 4ES.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.

Please send review copies to our Reviews Editor, Rob A Mackenzie, 30 Lochend Road, Leith, EH6 8BS.

Other correspondence and enquiries to info@magmapoetry.com or our postal address above.

www.magmapoetry.com

Our website includes selections of poems and articles in Magma and details of how to submit, subscribe and order back copies.