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...

Our latest winner of the Magma Open Pamphlet Competition - Michael Greavy's 'The Man Who Made Up Trees' - was officially launched last night with wonderful readings by Michael. It's a gorgeous collection of perfectly formed poems. Get your hands on a copy here! magmapoetry.com/publications...

Septembers Poem of the Month

Poetry Film Festival Sat 18 October at the John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol. A whole day of poetry films, discussions and workshops. Featuring the winners of the Poetry Film Live competition, Celtic poetry films, and acclaimed filmmaker Jane Glennie. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-fil...

If you missed last night's @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social launch event with our 2024 Poetry Pamphlet competition winner, @emiliejelinek.bsky.social, @poetclare.bsky.social and @jesstraynor.bsky.social, you can catch up with it via the link below. It was a fabulous event! ❤️

Tonight @gutterbookshop.bsky.social, 6.30pm: Dublin launch of Jessica Traynor's fourth collection New Arcana.

Can’t wait to get my copy of this, Michael’s reading last night was fantastic!

Really looking forward to the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm. Discounted copies available on the night! Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...

To help you get to know your judges for the 2025 National Poetry Competition, we've asked each one to participate in a visual Q&A. Next is Denise Saul, whose debut collection The Room Between Us (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press, 2022) was shortlisted for TS Eliot poetry prize 2022, (...)

Something for all you poetry students and lecturers out there... Why not let your university library know that they can take out digital subscriptions to the complete & fully-searchable archive of Magma? Our archive goes right back to the very first issue in 1994... with @exacteditions.bsky.social

Congratulations Katrina Porteous, winner of The Laurel Prize 2025 #poetry #rhizodont @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

One for the diary - time to celebrate Michael Greavy's pamphlet launch - winner of the @magmapoetry.bsky.social pamphlet competition. Hope to see many of you there!

We were glad to hear the Laurel Prize shortlist readings in Bradford last night. Congratulations to this year’s winner Katrina Porteous for Rhizodont @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social announced by Chair of judges Kathleen Jamie @poetryschool.bsky.social

Please join us for the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm. Discounted copies available on the night! Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...

'Each poem feels chosen with intelligence and care: accessibility matches profundity. […] a searching anthology that is both elegy, and celebration.’ – Martyn Halsall, in @churchtimes.bsky.social, on Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce's anthology Soul Feast. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

🌿✨ Watch the Laurel Prize Ceremony 2025 live! ✨🌿 📖 Finalist readings 👩‍⚖️ Judges: Kathleen Jamie, Daljit Nagra & Caroline Lucas 🏆 Winner revealed live 📅 Fri 19 Sept 2025 🕠 5.30pm (BST) 👉 Sign up here: poetryschool.com/cou... #LaurelPrize #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity #ClimatePoetry

📖 First published in 1994, @magmapoetry.bsky.social publishes outstanding poems by new, emerging and established writers, together with reviews and articles. 👀 Browse the complete Magma Poetry archive on Exact Editions.

Many congratulations to all five finalists for this year's Laurel Prize, especially to Katrina Porteous for her fourth poetry collection Rhizodont. #LaurelPrize2025 @poetryschool.bsky.social

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