Magma

About Magma

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	Magma 41 - Summer 2008 by Linda Black, Karen Green Karen Green and Linda Black have had a frustrating but invariably fruitful time editing number 41, sometimes fighting, occasionally spontaneously agreeing... £4.95		Magma 40 - Spring 2008 by Roddy Lumsden The 40th edition of Magma, one of Britain's brightest literary magazines, is guest edited by Bloodaxe poet Roddy Lumsden. £4.95

Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in summer, autumn and winter, with a selection on our web site. We look for poems that give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about the world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest a molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.

Magma is unusual in being run by a small group rather than an individual. Several writers with a roughly similar view of poetry got together and shared out the various jobs that needed to be done. They decided that each issue should have a different editor but, for continuity, each editor is advised by the editors of the previous and subsequent issues. The strength of the rotating editorship is that each editor brings his / her particular interests to bear, resulting in poems and emphases that no-one else in the group could have predicted. We feel this information works because we have a similar idea of what makes a poem work.

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43 Keslake Road
London
NW6 6DH
United Kingdom