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

To everyone who has submitted poems for Magma 94 'REMIX', just a note to say longlist & rejections notifications are going out at the moment. We are hoping to have responded to you all by Wednesday 22nd October. Thanks for your patience, & good luck! Image: Williams Chechet

Closes midnight poets. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-...

More reviews in our current issue 'Ownership' - magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/ @aoifelyall.bsky.social reviews @pimlottkathy.bsky.social's 'After the Rites and Sandwiches'; Camille Ralphs' 'After you were, I am'; and @dzifabenson.bsky.social's 'Monster'. magmapoetry.com/aoife-lyall-...

A Heads-up. After our wonderful pop-up event at @BhamLitFest at the weekend we return to our home #HiveJewelryQuater on Tuesday 21st Oct from 6.30pm (7.30 start). Open mic only, for poets brand new or old hands. Let us know you're coming! tinyurl.com/5y3dm94r

Our current pamphlet is a joy to read! The economy of language is beautifully precise. Michael Greavy won the most recent Magma Open Pamphlet Competition with the simply gorgeous 'The Man who Made Up Trees'. Get your hands on a copy! magmapoetry.com/publications...

Vidyan Ravinthiran’s 'The last train', a 'brief, dense excursion into the heartland of Sri Lankan history' from his @forwardprizes.bsky.social shortlisted collection Avidyā, is featured as @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social's Poem of the Week in the Yorkshire Times.  yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

These insightful reviews by @metapheric.bsky.social, in our current issue 'Ownership' are also now on our website. Find out what he thought of Raymond Antrobus's 'Signs, Music', Jamie McKendrick's 'Drypoint', & @jedapearl.bsky.social's 'Time Cleaves Itself' : magmapoetry.com/eric-yip-rev...

Send in yer poems!

📚 @wasafirimag.bsky.social x Tagore’s Salon Join us for Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature with writers Dur e Aziz Amna & Farah Ali Oct 15 | 7PM | Brick Lane Bookshop A conversation on illness, survival, and the work of writing. 🎟️ bricklanebookshop.org/product/tago...

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

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

The Phoenix Community Garden @pimlottkathy.bsky.social

These wonderful reviews by @atarbuck.bsky.social that appear in our current issue 'Ownership' are also now up on our website. See what she thought of Em Strang's 'Firebird', Tamar Yoseloff's 'Belief Systems', and Victoria Kennefick's 'egg/shell' here: magmapoetry.com/alice-tarbuc...

'Kennefick is loving, respectful and skilful in her depiction of grief and growth' Alice Tarbeck on Victoria Kennefick's egg/shell, for Magma Poetry. Read more here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...