Magma Selected highlights a single poet who is emerging or whose work deserves to be better known, allowing us to publish a wider selection of poems. Our Selected Poet for Magma 88 is Molly Underwood and we are delighted to be able to share her reading her wonderful poems in the current Underworld issue of Magma. Molly Underwood is a Bristol-based eco-poet. Her work has been shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship prize, appears in Fish Publishing and Aesthetica anthologies, and won the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize. ** Audio Molly Underwood reads four poems         &nbs ..read more

Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024  Judged by Niall Campbell  Deadine: 1 July 2024  Welcome to our 2024 pamphlet competition, now open for entries.    “The pamphlet has allowed my words to find new lines of flight that I never dreamed possible.”   – Asim Khan, winner of the last Magma competition with Annihilation, PBS Spring Pamphlet Choice 2024.  Magma invites you to enter our fourth pamphlet competition, now open for entries. We are delighted to have Niall Campbell as judge.  Prize: publication of the winning pamphlet + launch rea ..read more

The submissions window for ‘Grassroots’ is open from 1 – 31 March 2024. ** Grassroots What does Grassroots mean to you? Community? Activism? Environmentalism? Or something else? At a time of unprecedented global turmoil where our political elites struggle to deal with the pressing issues of the day – climate change, ongoing wars, and social inequalities – where are your grassroots? Within the poetry world, grassroots organisations, online and in-person, have supported poets to promote diversity, provide mentorship, nurture and develop talent and creativity. Cave Canem, The Obsidian Foundation ..read more

News of our 2024 pamphlet competition coming soon – watch this space. The post 2024 Pamphlet Competition appeared first on Magma Poetry ..read more

From Magma 87, Islands Read the review here: Laurie Smith reviews Genevieve Carver, Toby Buckley and Jess Murrain The post Laurie Smith reviews Genevieve Carver, Toby Buckley and Jess Murrain appeared first on Magma Poetry ..read more

From Magma 87, Island Read the review here: Eric Yip reviews Mona Kareem, Charif Shanahan and Mary Jean Chan The post Eric Yip reviews Mona Kareem, Charif Shanahan and Mary Jean Chan appeared first on Magma Poetry ..read more

The submissions window for ‘Performance’ is open from 4 December, 2023 –  4 January 2024. ** The speech in Shakespeare’s As You Like It begins: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.” While broadly defined, there are many unique layers to Magma 89’ theme of ‘Performance’. For instance, there are gendered, and erotic undertones. Hermann Hesse decried, “How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the h ..read more

We are delighted to announce the publication of Annihilation, the stunning new pamphlet by Birmingham poet Asim Khan, and winner of our 2022 Pamphlet Competition. Order the pamphlet here! The post Magma Open Pamphlet Competition 2022 appeared first on Magma Poetry ..read more

The Magma 2023/24 Poetry Competition is now open for entries in both categories. The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines *** Magma’s 2023/24 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems. We are very excited to announce that Raymond Antrobus is the judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines and he will be reading all entries – there are no sifters. The Editors’ Prize is judged by a panel of Magma Editors and is for poems of up to 10 lines. The prize money for both competitions is the same, so double y ..read more

From Magma 86, Food Read the review here: Fahad Al-Amoudi reviews Momtaza Mehri The post Fahad Al-Amoudi reviews Momtaza Mehri appeared first on Magma Poetry ..read more