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Are you a poet interested in science? Does your work engage with the world of physics? We'd love to hear from you! Stay tuned for our next call for submission: Magma 84 on the theme of Physics, edited by Susannah Hart
@SusannahJHart
and Stav Poleg 🔥
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Gboyega Odubanjo, our dear colleague and friend.
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Our 2023/24 Poetry Competition is open to the end of this month.
We are thrilled that acclaimed poet, educator and writer Raymond Antrobus is judging the Judge's Prize for poems 11-50 lines. There are no sifters – he will read every entry.
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Call for submissions for Magma 88! Editors Ella Duffy,
@Kate_Elspeth
and
@leoboix
are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88, Underworld. Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023.
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After a board discussion, Magma will be moving to simultaneous submissions from the next issue onward. We think it is fairer to poets, but if your wonderful poem/s is/are accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately. The lanes are busy out there. Let's keep poetry flowing.
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'What the bully at work cannot touch'. There's a stillness about this poem by
@carolinedaviesd
that makes it all the more spell-like. Find it at to keep and re-read, with much else, in Magma's Work Issue.
@bullyinguk
@MindCharity
@ABAonline
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Call for submissions for Magma 88!
Editors Ella Duffy,
@Kate_Elspeth
and
@leoboix
are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88, Underworld.
Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023.
More info:
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Call for submissions for Magma 89, Performance! Editors Mariam Chaudhri,
@davidsocialsp
&
@JosianeSmith
are looking forward to receiving your poems.
For all the info on how to submit, and some ideas to inspire you:
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Magma is actively exploring having a dual-launch for each issue. One event in a live venue, aka IRL, and continuing with our online Zoom launches so we ensure we continue to reach all audiences wherever they are to make our events as accessible as possible. Win/Win.
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Please folks when you email Magma about anything remember we have sickness, disability and do jobs to pay the bills like the rest of you. We are all volunteers. We don't expect gratitude. But we don't expect rudeness. Thanks for your patience.
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We are ☘delighted☘ that
@NiallCPoetry
will judge our 2024 poetry pamphlet competition. Now open for entries at
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Submissions are now open for Magma 82: Obsidian! Edited by
@NickMakoha
&
@OdubanjoGboyega
. This issue is in partnership with
@ObsidianFdn
and will focus on Black poets. Submissions open 1 July - 31 July.
More details and full call out:
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Magma is supremely happy to welcome
@OdubanjoGboyega
to the board. He has done an incredible job co-editing The Act Your Age issue of Magma and he is also a brilliant poet with
@badbettypress
🥳🎇🎆
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Call for submissions — Magma 79, Dwelling
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The Magma Poetry Competition 2022/23 winners have just been announced! Well done to all.
Judge’s Prize:
1st:Ben Rogers - The Escape
@benrogers_7
2nd: Jonathan Edwards - Penguins
3rd: Ilse Pedler - When my body gave itself to counting
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Our 2024 pamphlet competition will launch tomorrow. Watch this space
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The Competition is now open with
@RaymondAntrobus
the Judge for poems of 11-50 lines and Magma Editors for poems of up to ten lines.
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It is confirmed! Our Judge for the Magma Poetry Competition 2019/2020 is the amazing poet
@CarolineBirdUK
. We are super excited to be working with Caroline and looking forward to receiving all your poems. More details to follow...
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Magma 83: Solitude, in partnership w. the Foyle Foundation is live now!
Co-edited by
@IsabelleBaafi
@ilya_poet
@LisaDMKelly
Poets & Contributors incl. Kaveh Akbar
@RomalynAnte
@RaymondAntrobus
@BevisKathryn
@alice_hiller
@JennyMitchellGo
@mj_sprackland
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Magma Poetry Competition 2020/21 Winners announced! Huge thanks to all who entered - you can see the list of all winning and commended poets here
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Magma's poetry competition is open for submissions! Further details about how to to submit are located on our website💫
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Amid the heartbreak, the shocking small print. To be read ⬇️⬇️
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Keep an eye out on the Magma website for a new Call for Submissions soon to be posted - it's an issue that is increasingly becoming politicised & needs frank engagement with the poetry community.
More soon....👁️
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Delighted to announce that
@a_pirmohamed
will judge our 2022 pamphlet competition - and that we are open for entries
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Happy National Poetry Day from everyone at Magma - thanks for all your support, your poems that we have the privilege of reading, and the faith you have in a magazine that is celebrating 25 years. Let us know what you're up to! 📚🥳🥂
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Are poets being pressured into 'curating' their image? Disturbing reports of poets 'advised' their personality should somehow 'mirror' their poetry for success. Surely such self-shaping has a mental load. Magma advocates
#The
Mix. Write deep, be frivolous. Or vice versa. Be You.
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Thrilled to announce Magma 88 'Underworld' is now published and available to buy on our website.
Edited by
@leoboix
,
@Kate_Elspeth
and Ella Duffy.
Get your copy here:
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please keep retweeting ! keep this campaign going until Gboyega is found. Just keep on keep on doing it. This needs to be on
@BBCBreaking
etc. with the public fully behind finding Gboyega with constant updates until we have him home 🙏
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Have you sent in your entries for the Magma 2023/24 Poetry Competition yet?
We're thrilled that Raymond Antrobus is the judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines.
The Editors’ Prize is for poems of up to 10 lines.
Deadline is 31st Jan 2024.
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Roddy Lumsden, a poet, who died too young, who supported young poets.
He edited 'Magma 40 - Passions and Obsessions'. This cover, in tribute. ❤️🌱
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Celebrating that poetry prizes have started to open to outsiders & small presses - proud & delighted that Fran Lock is shortlisted for the
@tseliotprize
tonight. Her wonderful lyrical essay On Islands appears in the latest Magma.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION – Magma 90 - 'Grassroots' Closing date: 31st March, 2024
Editors
@LisaDMKelly
and
@GOLDWILDPOPPY
look forward to receiving your previously unpublished poems! What does Grassroots mean to you? For more info and to submit:
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Amazing ....we are so incredibly proud of
@Malikabooker
for her poem 'The Little Miracles' for The Best Single Poem in Magma's Loss Issue which has only gone and won!!! Beautiful speech giving thanks for all the inspiration and people who helped enable this poem. 😍🥰
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Magma 87 - Islands - is now live!
Edited by
@SafiyaKamaria
@fioan1
and
@NiallCPoetry
Get your hands on a copy here:
#magma
#poetry
#islands
#magma87
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The Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020 is open for submissions!
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Our submissions will open a week today for poems on the theme of Islands. Editors
@NiallCPoetry
and
@fioan1
also specially welcome poems by island poets - from Fiji to Madagascar, Jamaica to the Faroes, Channel Islands to Shetland.
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Last few days to get your submissions in for Magma 88 - Underworld!
Editors Ella Duffy,
@Kate_Elspeth
and
@leoboix
are searching for previously unpublished poems for Issue 88.
Closing date for submissions is 31st July 2023.
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Our poetry pamphlet competition will be opening very soon, judged by the brilliant
@maryjean_chan
. Watch the moving target of this Twitter space. Photo is just for sea dreaming
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Poetry will go on... We are launching our second poetry pamphlet competition in April - and are delighted that prizewinning poet
@maryjean_chan
will be the judge. More news soon. Here's Mary Jean's recent Guardian piece
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CALL FOR SUBMISSION – Magma 90 - 'Grassroots'
Closing date: 31st March, 2024
Editors
@LisaDMKelly
and
@GOLDWILDPOPPY
look forward to receiving your previously unpublished poems! What does Grassroots mean to you?
For more info and to submit:
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⭐Congratulations⭐to the 10 poets on judge
@maryjean_chan
's shortlist for our pamphlet competition:
@ElizBarrettB
@AEBinney
@Maia_Elsner
@SimonFMiddleton
@VickyMWriter
@redbaronski
@TheChronotope
@oliversouthall_
@aj_winik
. 10 poems on our website soon
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Call for Submissions: Magma 86
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Magma 86 - The Food issue - is now live!
Co-edited by
@EllaFrears
and
@SeanWaiKeung
#magma86
Get your copy here:
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Folks Magma has some exciting news. Did you know we will be 25 years old next year and to celebrate in the run up we want to do something special - our first pamphlet competition. Stay tuned for more news & details, but meanwhile start looking at your strongest poems & shaping !
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What better way to say Happy National Poetry Day than with our new callout for submissions for issue 80 on the theme of Avatars.
@PoetryDayUK
🎭♥️🔥🥳
I'm delighted & honoured to be able to announce finally that I'll be co-editing issue 80 of
@magmapoetry
, with the theme of Avatars. My co-editors are the mighty fine
@PetraKamula
&
@DrNourrr
. Big thanks to
@LisaDMKelly
for the invitation. Get submitting!
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The Magma 2019/20 Poetry Competition 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
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Our 🐸 poetry pamphlet competition 🐦 is open for another 6 weeks or so, closes 1 July. Judge: Niall Campbell.
It's here:
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Both practical & inspiring: the delights (& a few despairs) of poetry magazine editing. Panel at Poetry Book Fair today with our own
@LisaDMKelly
,
@_dodo
of Butcher's Dog, Ben T-C of
@fourteenpoems
and
@neilsonandrew
of Bad Lilies
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Poetry is an interconnected ecosystem & when one of us is in danger/threatened the whole becomes weaker. So many poets have benefitted from the
@poetrybusiness
& they have gone on to edit, set up magazines, even publishing houses...this is how it happens. Let our roots flourish.
Our recent news of a failed Arts Council bid to support the business in 2019 means we need help to continue our work over the coming months. We have set up a fundraising page. Please support us if you can:
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Magma Poetry Competition 2020/21 is open for submission!
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Magma JUDGE'S PRIZE :
@CarolineBirdUK
Congrats to all 🔥
FIRST PRIZE: Mark Russell from Arrochar, Scotland with Hospitality
SECOND PRIZE: Victoria Richards from Wanstead, London with The mothers scream into the void
THIRD PRIZE: Rachael Matthews from New York with Ventriloquism
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New Call for Submissions opens today. Read all about it. What does it mean to Act Your Age?
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Folks - Magma is always innovative & looking for new connections and voices. Now we have an issue dedicated to this ethos. Get your collaborative genius poetry ideas flowing....this is not a poem you can submit from your back catalogue. Fresh thinking pls.
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Thrilled to share the 10 shortlisted poets chosen by 🙏
@a_pirmohamed
for our 2022 pamphlet competition. Congratulations to
@AlbedoVasiliki
@AsimK_
@JacCommon
@jinisnotfound
Laura Theis
@mscrupe
@ojo_poems
@perlakantarjian
Sara Falkstad
@wendylawwrites
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Call for submission, Magma 84, Physics
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Happy New Year to all our wonderful poets and readers; subscribers and supporters who have been part of our journey that has seen us reach our 25 year milestone in 2019. Here's to the next 25, and a creative and fulfilling 2020 to you all 🎇🎆🥳🍾🎉
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Dear poetry submitters: please make sure your cover letters are short— no more than three / four sentences. What matters most is your poetry.
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We are thrilled to announce the winner of our 2022 pamphlet competition: Annihilation by Asim Khan
@AsimK_
. To be published next year! Many congratulations to him, thanks to all entrants & judge
@a_pirmohamed
. Read poems by Asim & 9 shortlisted poets ⬇️
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We are thrilled to announce that our full archive is now accessible on
@exacteditions
🤠
🔔 Newly Completed Archive 🔔
We're thrilled to announce that the fully-searchable digital archive of
@magmapoetry
now encompasses every back issue stretching back to 1994.
Find out more in the press release 👇
🖋
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We are open for submissions until 31 March.
@NiallCPoetry
and
@fioan1
look forward to reading your poems on Islands, literal & metaphorical, mythical & real, refuge or trap, sinking or surviving. They welcome poems from islanders round the world.
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#FindGboyegaOdubanjo
. Keep the news active, the flood of posts, the retweets, especially anyone who was at
@ShambalaFest
, or if you know anyone who was. Esp if they might not have seen the appeals. Someone somewhere will surely know something that could help 🙏
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We are thrilled to be publishing
@aj_winik
Alexa Winik's debut
#poetry
pamphlet next year - she's won our 2020 competition! See here for her reaction & more from judge
@maryjean_chan
who praised "a tender eco-poetics.. sophisticated & thought-provoking"
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Magma's 2020 Poetry Pamphlet Competition is open, with
@maryjean_chan
as judge. Be like this shell: spread your wings, take a flutter
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A reminder to get your submissions for Magma 89, Performance in by 4th January 2024! Editors Mariam Chaudhri,
@davidsocialsp
&
@JosianeSmith
are looking forward to receiving your poems. For all the info on how to submit, & some ideas to inspire you:
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Our Submittable portal is open for your pamphlets until 10 August. They have started to arrive...
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Our pamphlet competition judge
@maryjean_chan
says she's "drawn to pamphlets that strike like lightning, ones that spark and kindle something in the mind". More at
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Where might the daisies take you.. Magma's Poetry Pamphlet Competition is open.
@maryjean_chan
is the judge. Find out more at
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Call for Submissions: Magma 74, on the theme of Work
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Thank you to all our poets & audience who joined the launch & apologies for offensive trolls who crashed at the beginning. We live and learn in this new environment of sharing our work & fortunately poetry triumphed. Congratulations
@Natteitler
&
@leoboix
for a stunning issue 🔥
Huge thanks to all the poets who read beautifully at tonight's
@magmapoetry
Resistencia Latinx launch. I am so sorry for the stress and upset caused by the racist and anti-Semitic trolls at the beginning of the readings.
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Updated description of our dear friend & colleague Gboyega Odubanjo, who is missing, below - what he was wearing when last seen. Please share, and call 101 as below if you know anything that could help. Hoping, hoping he is OK.
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Openings, lintels, perspectives... Five weeks left to make a poetry pamphlet for our competition judged by
@maryjean_chan
. Find out more at
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Our awesome editors...await your awesome poems. Submissions open on 1 July and run for two months, so get your changeling head switched on ! Magma 73 is darkly brewing....
🎺CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS🎺
@iamrichardscott
& I are editing the next issue of
@magmapoetry
: 'CHANGELING' - Send us your dark / strange / surreal / metaphysical poems... poems that aren’t who they say they are... poems of magic & transformation (open July 1st)
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Magma is thinking of inviting all the poets who are in the magazine to read at the launch. What are your views? Lovely to hear every poet perform their poem or too long an evening with the prospect of poetry zone-out....
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What a night! Thank you to all of our wonderful winners, everyone who came down to show support, to
@arshi_mona
for being a fantastic judge and to everyone who entered the 2017/18 Magma Poetry Competition. Here are the full list of winners. Congratulations!! 👏🏼🎉
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Call for Submission — Magma 75, Loss
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Putting together an issue of the magazine is such a strange, organic process, but now and again there are measurable growth spurts - one of them is 'off to the printers'! The Act Your Age issue has just spurted in that direction...can't wait to see fruits of labour.
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12 days left to enter our
#poetry
pamphlet competition judged by
@maryjean_chan
. Closes midnight on Monday 10 August. Thank you to all those who've sent their pamphlets in already. Get yours in before the last minute rush...
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Thank you
@PoetryAldeburgh
for a wonderful weekend, launching Magma 84 on the theme of Physics!
@LucySheerman
@emmihartikainen
Stav Poleg
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Liam mate, we've all been there...you never know one of our Editors might think it's the best experimental poetry they've ever come across!
Just discovered that although I thought I’d submitted 5 poems to
@magmapoetry
, what I’d actually submitted was a doc of initial thoughts along the lines of ‘a poem about being sad?’ that I’d saved under a misleading file name.
Mortifying.
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We are looking for poetry that promotes understanding of how people with varying hearing abilities interpret sound
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And the winner of the Magma Poetry Competition 2017/18 Judge’s Prize is Jo Burns and her poem The Cosmic Horseshoe.
A massive congratulations to Jo!
She reads her poem for us...
“This poem lifted me up and brought me back down again. It speaks of truth”
@arshi_mona
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Magma Poetry is delighted to announce the results of the 2023/24 Poetry Competition.
Congratulations to all the winning and commended poets!
JUDGE’S PRIZE judged by Raymond Antrobus, for poems of 11-50 lines:
FIRST PRIZE: For Palestine by
@ClaraLaeila
...
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We can't believe this is happening. Our dear Gboyega has now been missing for five days. Friends & family searched yesterday near
@ShambalaFest
at Kelmarsh Hall between
#kettering
&
#marketharborough
. Please help us
#FindGboyegaOdubanjo
🙏
@hfmnews
@HarbMail
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This is an amazing list, but can we just say we are super proud of board member
@EllaFrears
who is not only a brilliant poet, but a brilliant person. One of the nicest people you could meet & that goes a long, long way in this world. 🙌🥳♥️🎇🌹
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Brilliant news
@RaymondAntrobus
, co-editor of the Deaf Issue, Magma 69, has won this prestigious award. He has raised the roof and raised the bar. 👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
The winner of the 2018
#TedHughesAward
for New Work in Poetry is Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance. Congratulations!
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"I am drawn to pamphlets that strike like lightning, ones that spark and kindle something in the mind." So says our poetry pamphlet competition judge
@maryjean_chan
. You have almost 3 weeks left to enter (until Monday 10 August). Hurl your lightning bolt:
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Thank you to everyone who entered the Magma Poetry Competition 2019/2020.
@CarolineBirdUK
and Magma board Editors will soon be busy judging - respectively and respectfully - the Judge's Prize and the Editors' Prize. Good luck to one and all in all your poetry endeavours.🧲🍀📚
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Very moving readings by
@alice_hiller
@kostyanaut
@JeffreySugerman
at our
@magmapoetry
Loss issue launch in London
#MagmaLoss
#poetrywriter
#poetrylovers
🔥🔥🔥👏🏼💫✨
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Good morning and thank you to everyone who entered the Magma
#poetry
pamphlet competition this summer. Our judge
@maryjean_chan
has chosen a shortlist of 10 pamphlets and we've let their authors know. Watch this space for more news
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Magma’s 2017/18 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems.
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Good luck to all the poets on the T.S. Eliot shortlist. It is a stellar list & can't wait to hear you all. Very proud that board member
@EllaFrears
is getting the recognition she deserves for
@OffordRoadBooks
collection 'Shine Darling'. Every one of the poets are stars. 🌟⭐️✨💫
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The Magma Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020 — Shortlist Announced
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Magma 82: Obsidian, in partnership with
@ObsidianFdn
, is live now!
Featuring some real legends, including
@YomiSode
@Malikabooker
Fred Moten, Lorna Goodison
@DanteMicheaux
@victoriaadukwei
@LexAmor_
@ParkinsBrown
& many more
Available to buy here:
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🔊NEW 🔊 Our poetry competition will close midnight this Sunday 16 January (instead of Friday). To give you some weekend time to revise & send in: to our judge
@MarvinPoet
(11-50 line poems, he'll read them all); and Magma editors (up to 10 lines)
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Have you sent in your entry for our annual poetry competition yet?
You have just over a week to get your poems in!
The deadline is 31st Jan 2024.
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