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The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
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Are you a poet interested in science? Does your work engage with the world of physics? We'd love to hear from you! Stay tuned for our next call for submission: Magma 84 on the theme of Physics, edited by Susannah Hart @SusannahJHart and Stav Poleg đ„.
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Call for submissions!.Magma 91: In the Flesh. Closing date: 31st July, 2024. What a thing is a body! What a thing to be In the Flesh!. Editors @PoetLyall and @VKennefick look forward to receiving your poems! .
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Our 2023/24 Poetry Competition is open to the end of this month. We are thrilled that acclaimed poet, educator and writer Raymond Antrobus is judging the Judge's Prize for poems 11-50 lines. There are no sifters â he will read every entry.
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Call for submissions for Magma 88! Editors Ella Duffy, @Kate_Elspeth.and @leoboix.are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88, Underworld. Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023.
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After a board discussion, Magma will be moving to simultaneous submissions from the next issue onward. We think it is fairer to poets, but if your wonderful poem/s is/are accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately. The lanes are busy out there. Let's keep poetry flowing.
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Call for submissions!.Magma 91: In the Flesh.Closing date: 31st July, 2024. In the Flesh: a phrase that has many connotations: What does it mean to you?. Editors @PoetLyall & @VKennefick look forward to reading your poems!.
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'What the bully at work cannot touch'. There's a stillness about this poem by @carolinedaviesd that makes it all the more spell-like. Find it at to keep and re-read, with much else, in Magma's Work Issue. @bullyinguk @MindCharity @ABAonline
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Call for submissions!. Magma 92: Ownership.What does ownership mean to you?.Editors @DrDanne @stephenson_pj & Kathy Pimlott look forward to reading your poems!. Closing date: 30th November, 2024.
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Call for submissions for Magma 88!.Editors Ella Duffy, @Kate_Elspeth and @leoboix are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88, Underworld. Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023. More info:
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Call for submissions for Magma 89, Performance! Editors Mariam Chaudhri, @davidsocialsp & @JosianeSmith are looking forward to receiving your poems. For all the info on how to submit, and some ideas to inspire you:
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Magma is actively exploring having a dual-launch for each issue. One event in a live venue, aka IRL, and continuing with our online Zoom launches so we ensure we continue to reach all audiences wherever they are to make our events as accessible as possible. Win/Win.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!.Magma 91: In the Flesh.Closing date: 31st July, 2024.In the Flesh: pertains to the current ecological disaster, namely the plastics that are making their way from our hands, into our seas, into our food & back into our bodies.
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Please folks when you email Magma about anything remember we have sickness, disability and do jobs to pay the bills like the rest of you. We are all volunteers. We don't expect gratitude. But we don't expect rudeness. Thanks for your patience.
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Call for submissions!.Magma 91: In the Flesh.Closing date: NEXT WEEK! 31st July, 2024.Editors @VKennefick & @PoetLyall are.delighted to be editing this issue and look forward to reading your poems! .
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We are âdelightedâ that @NiallCPoetry will judge our 2024 poetry pamphlet competition. Now open for entries at
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The Magma 2024/25 Poetry Competition is now open for entries in both categories!. Delighted to have @amyacrepoet judging The Judgeâs Prize, for poems of 11 to 50 lines! .The Editorsâ Prize is for poems of up to 10 lines. Deadline: 31st Jan 2025.
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Submissions are now open for Magma 82: Obsidian! Edited by @NickMakoha & @OdubanjoGboyega . This issue is in partnership with @ObsidianFdn and will focus on Black poets. Submissions open 1 July - 31 July. More details and full call out:.
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Magma is supremely happy to welcome @OdubanjoGboyega to the board. He has done an incredible job co-editing The Act Your Age issue of Magma and he is also a brilliant poet with @badbettypress đ„łđđ.
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Our 2024 pamphlet competition will launch tomorrow. Watch this space
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The Magma Poetry Competition 2022/23 winners have just been announced! Well done to all. Judgeâs Prize:.1st:Ben Rogers - The Escape @benrogers_7 .2nd: Jonathan Edwards - Penguins.3rd: Ilse Pedler - When my body gave itself to counting
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The Magma 2024/25 Poetry Competition is open for entries in both categories and the deadline is 31st Jan 2025. So get your poems in for: .The Judgeâs Prize â poems of 11 to 50 lines - judged by @amyacrepoet .The Editorsâ Prize â poems of up to 10 lines.
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The Competition is now open with @RaymondAntrobus the Judge for poems of 11-50 lines and Magma Editors for poems of up to ten lines.
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It is confirmed! Our Judge for the Magma Poetry Competition 2019/2020 is the amazing poet @CarolineBirdUK . We are super excited to be working with Caroline and looking forward to receiving all your poems. More details to follow. .
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Congratulations to all the poets on this amazing list. We are thrilled to see Gboyega Odubanjo's collection, Adam, so honoured.â€ïžđ.
Here are our ten wonderful shortlisted poets for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024, and their shortlisted books! We are so thrilled to be able to celebrate these writers and share their work with you all.
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Magma 83: Solitude, in partnership w. the Foyle Foundation is live now!.Co-edited by @IsabelleBaafi @ilya_poet @LisaDMKelly .Poets & Contributors incl. Kaveh Akbar @RomalynAnte @RaymondAntrobus @BevisKathryn @alice_hiller @JennyMitchellGo @mj_sprackland .
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Call for submissions!. Magma 92: 'Ownership'. Closing date: 30th November 2024. What does ownership mean to you? .Editors @DrDanne @stephenson_pj.& Kathy Pimlott look forward to reading your poems!.
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It's with great pleasure that we announce the shortlist from our 2024 pamphlet competition, judged by @NiallCPoetry. A poem by each of the 10 authors will be published on our website soon, watch this space. Congratulations to them all. /2.
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Magma's poetry competition is open for submissions! Further details about how to to submit are located on our websiteđ«
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Amid the heartbreak, the shocking small print. To be read âŹïžâŹïž.
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Magma Poetry Competition 2020/21 Winners announced! Huge thanks to all who entered - you can see the list of all winning and commended poets here
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Keep an eye out on the Magma website for a new Call for Submissions soon to be posted - it's an issue that is increasingly becoming politicised & needs frank engagement with the poetry community. More soon. đïž.
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Thrilled to announce Magma 88 'Underworld' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by @leoboix, @Kate_Elspeth and Ella Duffy. Get your copy here:
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Delighted to announce that @a_pirmohamed will judge our 2022 pamphlet competition - and that we are open for entries
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please keep retweeting ! keep this campaign going until Gboyega is found. Just keep on keep on doing it. This needs to be on @BBCBreaking etc. with the public fully behind finding Gboyega with constant updates until we have him home đ.
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Happy National Poetry Day from everyone at Magma - thanks for all your support, your poems that we have the privilege of reading, and the faith you have in a magazine that is celebrating 25 years. Let us know what you're up to! đđ„łđ„.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION â Magma 90 - 'Grassroots' Closing date: 31st March, 2024 .Editors @LisaDMKelly and @GOLDWILDPOPPY look forward to receiving your previously unpublished poems! What does Grassroots mean to you? For more info and to submit:
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Roddy Lumsden, a poet, who died too young, who supported young poets. He edited 'Magma 40 - Passions and Obsessions'. This cover, in tribute. â€ïžđ±
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Celebrating that poetry prizes have started to open to outsiders & small presses - proud & delighted that Fran Lock is shortlisted for the .@tseliotprize tonight. Her wonderful lyrical essay On Islands appears in the latest Magma.
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Are poets being pressured into 'curating' their image? Disturbing reports of poets 'advised' their personality should somehow 'mirror' their poetry for success. Surely such self-shaping has a mental load. Magma advocates #The Mix. Write deep, be frivolous. Or vice versa. Be You.
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Have you sent in your entries for the Magma 2023/24 Poetry Competition yet?.We're thrilled that Raymond Antrobus is the judge for the Judgeâs Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines. The Editorsâ Prize is for poems of up to 10 lines. Deadline is 31st Jan 2024.
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Amazing . we are so incredibly proud of @Malikabooker for her poem 'The Little Miracles' for The Best Single Poem in Magma's Loss Issue which has only gone and won!!! Beautiful speech giving thanks for all the inspiration and people who helped enable this poem. đđ„°.
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Magma 87 - Islands - is now live! .Edited by @SafiyaKamaria @fioan1 and @NiallCPoetry.Get your hands on a copy here:. #magma #poetry #islands #magma87
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Our submissions will open a week today for poems on the theme of Islands. Editors @NiallCPoetry and @fioan1 also specially welcome poems by island poets - from Fiji to Madagascar, Jamaica to the Faroes, Channel Islands to Shetland.
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The Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020 is open for submissions!
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Last few days to get your submissions in for Magma 88 - Underworld! .Editors Ella Duffy, @Kate_Elspeth and @leoboix are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88. Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023.
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Poetry will go on. We are launching our second poetry pamphlet competition in April - and are delighted that prizewinning poet @maryjean_chan will be the judge. More news soon. Here's Mary Jean's recent Guardian piece
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Our poetry pamphlet competition will be opening very soon, judged by the brilliant @maryjean_chan. Watch the moving target of this Twitter space. Photo is just for sea dreaming
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION â Magma 90 - 'Grassroots'.Closing date: 31st March, 2024.Editors @LisaDMKelly and @GOLDWILDPOPPY look forward to receiving your previously unpublished poems! What does Grassroots mean to you?.For more info and to submit:
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âCongratulationsâto the 10 poets on judge @maryjean_chan's shortlist for our pamphlet competition: @ElizBarrettB @AEBinney @Maia_Elsner @SimonFMiddleton @VickyMWriter @redbaronski @TheChronotope @oliversouthall_ @aj_winik. 10 poems on our website soon.
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Our đž poetry pamphlet competition đŠ is open for another 6 weeks or so, closes 1 July. Judge: Niall Campbell. It's here:
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The Magma 2019/20 Poetry Competition is now open for entries in both categories. The Judgeâs Prize â poems of 11 to 50 lines.The Editorsâ Prize â poems of up to 10 lines
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Magma 86 - The Food issue - is now live!.Co-edited by @EllaFrears and @SeanWaiKeung .#magma86 . Get your copy here:.
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Calling all poetry students and lecturers! .Now the academic year is in full swing, why not ask your university librarian if they would like access to Magma's entire digital archive. (Image: Magma 61 from the year 2015)
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What better way to say Happy National Poetry Day than with our new callout for submissions for issue 80 on the theme of Avatars. @PoetryDayUK đâ„ïžđ„đ„ł.
I'm delighted & honoured to be able to announce finally that I'll be co-editing issue 80 of @magmapoetry, with the theme of Avatars. My co-editors are the mighty fine @PetraKamula & @DrNourrr. Big thanks to @LisaDMKelly for the invitation. Get submitting!
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Folks Magma has some exciting news. Did you know we will be 25 years old next year and to celebrate in the run up we want to do something special - our first pamphlet competition. Stay tuned for more news & details, but meanwhile start looking at your strongest poems & shaping !.
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Poetry is an interconnected ecosystem & when one of us is in danger/threatened the whole becomes weaker. So many poets have benefitted from the @poetrybusiness & they have gone on to edit, set up magazines, even publishing houses. this is how it happens. Let our roots flourish.
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Both practical & inspiring: the delights (& a few despairs) of poetry magazine editing. Panel at Poetry Book Fair today with our own @LisaDMKelly, @_dodo of Butcher's Dog, Ben T-C of @fourteenpoems and @neilsonandrew of Bad Lilies
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Magma Poetry Competition 2020/21 is open for submission! .
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Thrilled to share the 10 shortlisted poets chosen by đ @a_pirmohamed for our 2022 pamphlet competition. Congratulations to.@AlbedoVasiliki .@AsimK_.@JacCommon.@jinisnotfound.Laura Theis.@mscrupe.@ojo_poems.@perlakantarjian .Sara Falkstad.@wendylawwrites.
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Magma JUDGE'S PRIZE : @CarolineBirdUK .Congrats to all đ„.FIRST PRIZE: Mark Russell from Arrochar, Scotland with Hospitality.SECOND PRIZE: Victoria Richards from Wanstead, London with The mothers scream into the void.THIRD PRIZE: Rachael Matthews from New York with Ventriloquism.
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đșYou can now read work by our 10 shortlisted pamphlet comp poets. đșVisit our website for poems by @ChrisKitson5, @CorinnaBoard, @jerroldyam, John Kefala Kerr, @lydiakennaway, Matt Pitt, Michael Greavy, @rachellewispoet, @TimScottWriter, Timothy Dwyer.
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New Call for Submissions opens today. Read all about it. What does it mean to Act Your Age?.
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A reminder that the Magma 2024/25 Poetry Competition is open for entries!. Deadline 31st Jan 2025. So get your poems in for:. The Judgeâs Prize, judged by @amyacrepoet â poems of 11 to 50 lines. The Editorsâ Prize â poems of up to 10 lines.
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Happy New Year! If your New Year's resolution is to get your poetry published, why not enter our annual poetry competition? You have until the end of January to get your poems in. More info and to enter:
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Happy New Year to all our wonderful poets and readers; subscribers and supporters who have been part of our journey that has seen us reach our 25 year milestone in 2019. Here's to the next 25, and a creative and fulfilling 2020 to you all đđđ„łđŸđ.
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We are thrilled to announce the winner of our 2022 pamphlet competition: Annihilation by Asim Khan @AsimK_. To be published next year! Many congratulations to him, thanks to all entrants & judge @a_pirmohamed. Read poems by Asim & 9 shortlisted poets âŹïž
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đ„Our pamphlet competition: open until I July.đ„Judge: Niall Campbell .đ„Prize: publication & launch.đ„All 10 shortlisted entries: a poem on our website .đ„Winner + 3: a poem in the magazine.đ„
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Folks - Magma is always innovative & looking for new connections and voices. Now we have an issue dedicated to this ethos. Get your collaborative genius poetry ideas flowing. this is not a poem you can submit from your back catalogue. Fresh thinking pls.
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We are thrilled to be publishing @aj_winik Alexa Winik's debut #poetry pamphlet next year - she's won our 2020 competition! See here for her reaction & more from judge @maryjean_chan who praised "a tender eco-poetics. sophisticated & thought-provoking"
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#FindGboyegaOdubanjo. Keep the news active, the flood of posts, the retweets, especially anyone who was at @ShambalaFest, or if you know anyone who was. Esp if they might not have seen the appeals. Someone somewhere will surely know something that could help đ.
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Dear poetry submitters: please make sure your cover letters are shortâ no more than three / four sentences. What matters most is your poetry.
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Magma's 2020 Poetry Pamphlet Competition is open, with @maryjean_chan as judge. Be like this shell: spread your wings, take a flutter
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We are thrilled to announce that our full archive is now accessible on @exacteditions đ€ .
đ Newly Completed Archive đ. We're thrilled to announce that the fully-searchable digital archive of @magmapoetry now encompasses every back issue stretching back to 1994. Find out more in the press release đ. đ
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We are open for submissions until 31 March. @NiallCPoetry and @fioan1 look forward to reading your poems on Islands, literal & metaphorical, mythical & real, refuge or trap, sinking or surviving. They welcome poems from islanders round the world.
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Where might the daisies take you. Magma's Poetry Pamphlet Competition is open. @maryjean_chan is the judge. Find out more at
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Very delighted to announce Michael Greavy has won our 2024 pamphlet competition with 'The Man Who Made Up Trees'! . Judge Niall Campbell says: "Everything gave way to sound". Magma will publish the pamphlet in 2025. More, and a poem by Michael, here:
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Our pamphlet competition judge @maryjean_chan says she's "drawn to pamphlets that strike like lightning, ones that spark and kindle something in the mind". More at
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Our Submittable portal is open for your pamphlets until 10 August. They have started to arrive.
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A reminder to get your submissions for Magma 89, Performance in by 4th January 2024! Editors Mariam Chaudhri, @davidsocialsp & @JosianeSmith are looking forward to receiving your poems. For all the info on how to submit, & some ideas to inspire you:
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Call for submissions! .Magma 92: 'Ownership' .Closing date: 30th November 2024 .What does ownership mean to you? .Editors @DrDanne @stephenson_pj & Kathy Pimlott look forward to reading your poems! .
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Thank you to all our poets & audience who joined the launch & apologies for offensive trolls who crashed at the beginning. We live and learn in this new environment of sharing our work & fortunately poetry triumphed. Congratulations @Natteitler & @leoboix for a stunning issue đ„.
Huge thanks to all the poets who read beautifully at tonight's @magmapoetry Resistencia Latinx launch. I am so sorry for the stress and upset caused by the racist and anti-Semitic trolls at the beginning of the readings.
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Openings, lintels, perspectives. Five weeks left to make a poetry pamphlet for our competition judged by @maryjean_chan. Find out more at
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Updated description of our dear friend & colleague Gboyega Odubanjo, who is missing, below - what he was wearing when last seen. Please share, and call 101 as below if you know anything that could help. Hoping, hoping he is OK.
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What a night! Thank you to all of our wonderful winners, everyone who came down to show support, to @arshi_mona for being a fantastic judge and to everyone who entered the 2017/18 Magma Poetry Competition. Here are the full list of winners. Congratulations!! đđŒđ
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Magma is thinking of inviting all the poets who are in the magazine to read at the launch. What are your views? Lovely to hear every poet perform their poem or too long an evening with the prospect of poetry zone-out. .
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Liam mate, we've all been there. you never know one of our Editors might think it's the best experimental poetry they've ever come across!.
Just discovered that although I thought Iâd submitted 5 poems to @magmapoetry, what Iâd actually submitted was a doc of initial thoughts along the lines of âa poem about being sad?â that Iâd saved under a misleading file name. Mortifying.
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12 days left to enter our #poetry pamphlet competition judged by @maryjean_chan. Closes midnight on Monday 10 August. Thank you to all those who've sent their pamphlets in already. Get yours in before the last minute rush.
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Our awesome editors. await your awesome poems. Submissions open on 1 July and run for two months, so get your changeling head switched on ! Magma 73 is darkly brewing.
đșCALL FOR SUBMISSIONSđș@iamrichardscott & I are editing the next issue of @magmapoetry: 'CHANGELING' - Send us your dark / strange / surreal / metaphysical poems. poems that arenât who they say they are. poems of magic & transformation (open July 1st)
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Putting together an issue of the magazine is such a strange, organic process, but now and again there are measurable growth spurts - one of them is 'off to the printers'! The Act Your Age issue has just spurted in that direction. can't wait to see fruits of labour.
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We are looking for poetry that promotes understanding of how people with varying hearing abilities interpret sound
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