A fascinating piece by poet @cathygalvin.bsky.social on the historical background to her first full-length poetry book Ethnology: A love song for Connemara is featured in The Tablet, accompanied by the title poem. Register to read the article for free.
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love talking about poetry? IPN Poetry Salon is for you. Join us, @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social & @inkandescentuk.bsky.social @nathanevansarts.bsky.social aj akoto @ruthirwin.bsky.social & gabriel moreno reading poems keats house Sat21Mar 2pm. £6-10 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pres...
Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social
& Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Get your tickets for this year's UniSlam Grand Finals ft. Amy Acre, Jasmine Gardosi & Jamal Mehmood at Birmingham Rep Sun 15th March
www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/uni...
Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic
Closing date: 31st March, 2026
Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems!
More info & to submit:
magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
In our new bi-monthly feature, Magma Editors share their reflections on current art taking place across the UK.
First up, @lisadmkelly.bsky.social on Tracey Emin's exhibition: A Second Life
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Great to hear poet and translator @georgeszirtes.bsky.social speaking to @imcmillan.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb about @poemsonthetube.bsky.social. The Poems on the Underground scheme has just turned 40.
George Szirtes features from 4:58.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Our very own @lisadmkelly.bsky.social wrote this wonderful article in Limping Chicken with input from Raymond Antrobus and Zoë McWhinney encouraging more BSL & Visual Vernacular entries for @forwardprizes.bsky.social
limpingchicken.com/2026/02/18/l...
It's your last chance to get your entries in!
Our poetry competition closes TOMORROW Saturday 31st January 2026 11.59pm GMT
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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
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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!
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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...
IP-authenticated and available across web, iOS & Android devices, it's the perfect resource for poetry students.
Image: Magma 21
Find out more here:
institutions.exacteditions.com/magma-poetry
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
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"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
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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...
Editors have been sending out final decisions over the last few days. Hopefully you have received yours now. Apologies for the delay!
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
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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/
To that end, we asked some of the writers in the issue to contribute to a short video in which they shared what liberation means to them.
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOCE...
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.
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