Discovery is the theme of the latest issue of Magma - discovery of self, discovery of place, discovery of the forgotten. It includes work by Annemarie Austin, Alison Brackenbury, Martyn Crucefix, David Harsent, Jay Parini and 40 other poets. Anna Woodford is the showcase poet of the issue.As the issue’s ‘Presiding Spirit’, George Szirtes makes a discovery of his own, with a tribute in verse to the almost-forgotten William Diaper, a silver poet of the Augustan age who wrote on mermaids – and fishing. ‘In writing about eels,’ writes Szirtes, ‘Diaper is also writing about sex, and rather wonderfully.’‘Poetry in Practice’ asks whether poetic satire has had its day. Despite a wide public appetite for political and social satire, poetic supply seems weak. ‘One wonders,’ asks David Morphet, ‘if poets are missing a trick.’Elsewhere, in ‘Poetry SatNav’, Jane Routh takes stock of the poetry scene in her own rural north west; and novelist Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland, makes a guest selection of Brise Marine by Mallarmé. Magma 39 also contains reviews of several new collections - by Mimi Khalvati, Fiona Sampson, Sarah Maguire, Mike Barlow and others.
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