It's your last chance to get your entries in! Our poetry competition closes TOMORROW Saturday 31st January 2026 11.59pm GMT magmapoetry.com/competition/

Only a few days left to get your entries in! Our poetry competition closes at the end of the week - 31st January 2026 11.59pm GMT magmapoetry.com/competition/

Our current pamphlet is a joy to read! Have you got a copy yet? Michael Greavy won the most recent Magma Open Pamphlet Competition with the simply gorgeous 'The Man who Made Up Trees'. His economy of language is used to perfection! magmapoetry.com/publications...

Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for underrepresented writers is officially open! ✍️⁠ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £25k of prizes 🌟 The theme this year is 'Material'. ⁠Find out more, including how to enter: bit.ly/CFWA2026 #WritingCommunity

COMPETITION ALERT! Just over two weeks to go! MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 T his year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social magmapoetry.com/competition/

Today's listing of the day is: Magma Poetry Competition (fee-based) #WritingCommunity

Join Magma editors @lisadmkelly.bsky.social and Patrizia Longhitano for a poetry workshop: A Valentine to Your Environment at the Arts Depot, 31 Jan 2-4pm www.artsdepot.co.uk/project/play...

Lovely BBC Radio 4 40th birthday feature on @poemsonthetube.bsky.social. With contributions from @imtiazdharker.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social, plus extracts from poems by Grace Nichols & the late Benjamin Zephaniah. A @radiotimes.bsky.social pick of the day. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Did you know that university libraries can take out digital subscriptions to the complete & fully-searchable archive of Magma? Our archive goes back to the first issue in 1994 @exacteditions.bsky.social Image: Magma 43

"It is a rich and beautiful collection, and vital for anyone who wishes to consider how art talks to art, and how art talks to the world." Thank you Alice Tarbuck & @magmapoetry.bsky.social for reviewing Belief Systems by Tamar Yoseloff magmapoetry.com (92) ninearchespress.com/publications...

Sharing news of this wonderful Online Poetry Course, run by Stav Poleg, co-editor of the Architecture Issue. The course starts next week and is aimed for all levels: Online Poetry Course www.hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educat...

Have you sent in your entries yet? MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is 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 Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social

Sharing news of this fascinating new creative writing course from Sarah Fletcher exploring sound and poetry. This is a weekly course taking place at Rudolf Steiner House with support from Barnaby Tobias. Starts Thu 15th Jan 7-9pm, £15 (£10 conc) rsh.anth.org.uk/event/creati...

We'll be sharing resources we find helpful going into the New Year. Do you have any courses or groups to recommend? I like @writershq.bsky.social. Here's a link to their Couch to 5k Words course, if you need some extra motivation. #WritingCommunity writershq.co.uk/festivals-ch...

Looking back at our Magma 93 'Liberation' launch at Push the Boat Out Festival in Edinburgh. Hosted by editor Isabelle Baafi, the event featured readings from some of the poets in the issue – Alycia Pirmohamed, Nat Raha, Zain Rishi & Amy L. King magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is 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 Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Good luck! magmapoetry.com/competition/

One of the aims of our current issue, Magma 93 'Liberation' was to broaden our collective understanding of what liberation means and how it can be gained, lost, shared and experienced.

FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Magma 95 - 'Architecture' Closing date: Wed 10th Dec 2025 Editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg look forward to receiving your poems! 📷Oscar Niemeyer More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Anson Gonzalez has done so much for poetry in Trinidad and Tobago and Caribbean literature as a whole. @magmapoetry.bsky.social This is for you Uncle Anson. Sleep well. magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

This has got to be my favourite Magma Brief so far. So inspiring!

Our current pamphlet is a joy to read! Have you got a copy yet? Michael Greavy won the most recent Magma Open Pamphlet Competition with the simply gorgeous 'The Man who Made Up Trees'. magmapoetry.com/publications...

Really looking forward to our in-person launch of Magma 93 'Liberation' at the fantastic Push the Boat Out poetry festival THIS SUNDAY 23 Nov, 12-1pm, at The Pleasance in Edinburgh. Join us there! More details & tickets here: pushtheboatout.org/.../magma-th...

Fantastic - please share and submit!

I saved this issue for a rainy day to read cover-to-cover and was not disappointed. I particularly loved Jill Hopper’s riposte to Samuel Pepys, and Anna Shelton’s dressing down of anatomical eponyms. But as ever, the whole issue is filled with brilliant poems, and thoughtful essays and reviews. <3

Join Magma contributors and editors to celebrate the online launch of Magma 93: Liberation! Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social look forward to seeing you there! Thu 13th Nov, 7-8pm Reserve your free spot here: www.eventbrite.hk/e/magma-93-l...

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Magma 95 - 'Architecture' Closing date: 10th Dec 2025 Editors Leo Boix & Stav Poleg look forward to reading your work—your rooms, your ruins, your bridges of language... Image: Charles Schridde magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Push the Boat Out 2025 is here! You can browse our programme, download a brochure, and book now 📣 🛶🎫 This year’s festival sets sail from 20-23 November with a bold mix of poetry, performance, music and art in a sparkling celebration of words in all their forms. pushtheboatout.org/programme/

Magma was the first poetry magazine I subscribed to, back at issue 71. We need more people subscribing to these spaces and keeping the truly innovative places for poetry alive, more so now than has ever been the case. Their briefs alone make this neurodivergent brain very happy indeed.

Update on Poetry Submission Fees As many of our readers & contributors know, our magazine is run by volunteers — our Trustees, editors & other Board members give their time freely. However, the costs of running the magazine continue to rise.

Support our #crowdfund for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer Resistance with these dolly #handmade #badges from editors @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and #cherrypotts 2.5cm, safety back, using cover art by #frankduffy from Joy//Us or original designs. longlisting poems on Tuesday tinyurl.tools/8330fc82

Poets reading @ptbopoetry.bsky.social in Edinburgh 22-23 Nove include @pascalepetit.bsky.social, @marjorielotfi.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social, plus an online event with Vidyan Ravinthiran & Arundhathi Subramaniam. There's special event for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology.

Really enjoying this edition. I think the opening poem will be a great teaching resource for paediatrics ❤️

Alongside our online launch of Magma 93 'Liberation' next Thu 13 Nov, we are also holding an in-person launch at the fantastic Push the Boat Out poetry festival in Edinburgh, on Sun 23 Nov, 12-1pm. Join us there! More details & tickets here: pushtheboatout.org/events/magma...

November news: shorturl.at/mzqLN Vidyan Ravinthiran wins @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Collection; new translations from Tomas Venclova, Pia Tafdrup & Ivan V. Lalić; online launch 20/11; Krisztina Tóth & Laura Wittner longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; plus much more!

Chuffed to see my tiny poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social with thanks to editors Isabelle Baafi and @sohinibasak.bsky.social

Will be reading at @magmapoetry.bsky.social issue no 93 launch, on Nov 13th. Register to attend here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.hk/e/magma-93-l...

Join Magma contributors and editors to celebrate the online launch of Magma 93: Liberation! Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social look forward to seeing you there! Thu 13th Nov, 7-8pm Reserve your free spot here: www.eventbrite.hk/e/magma-93-l...

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...

We're absolutely delighted to announce Magma 93 'Liberation' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social #liberation #magma93 Get your hands on a copy now! magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

We are delighted to welcome @pimlottkathy.bsky.social onto the Magma board of trustees as our new treasurer!

'It seems that the interplay of Welsh may have helped produce lightning and luminosity in Elfyn’s English-language poetry.’ - Carol Rumens, Poem of the Week, @theguardian.com, on 'Storm in Brooklyn Subway' from Menna Elfyn's new collection Parch. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

can't wait to read your poems. Send me your bangers, both quiet and noisy!

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is 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 Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Good luck! magmapoetry.com/competition/

I'm thrilled to announce that this album featuring my poetry and lute music from virtuoso lutenist Sam Brown is out now! We are extremely proud of it. You can order your copy here: waywardthoughts.bandcamp.com/album/waywar...

Good night at the Forward Prizes last night. As a former judge I felt jealous our year didn't have the extra work of looking at the best single poem in performance category. That's been a great addition. Well done everyone: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Closing for applications for WIP this coming Friday. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/wip-submission-form

Want to know what Karina Jakubowicz thought of these poetry collections? In our current issue - 'Ownership' Magma 92 - she reviews Sarah Fletcher's 'Plus Ultra'; Trudie Gorman's 'Trust the Damage'; and Nisha Ramayya's 'Fantasia'. Get yourself a copy here: magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The need to write is not something that can be encouraged – it is an illness that descends on the writer."

Today’s #poemsontheunderground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social