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Magma is a magazine of poetry and writing about poetry, published three times a year in Spring, Autumn and Winter, in full on paper and in selection on the World Wide Web. It 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.
This arrangement works because we have a similar idea of what makes a good poem. We look for poems which give a direct sense of what it is to live today - honest about feelings, alert about world, sometimes funny, always well crafted. 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.
When we decided on the title Magma, it was to suggest the molten core within the world, hidden as deep feelings are and showing itself in unpredictable movements, tremors, lava flows, eruptions.
On the internet at: magmapoetry.com. Our website contains a selection of Magma poems and articles; details of how to submit poems, subscribe to Magma and order back copies; links; and a facility to email poems with personal messages.
introduction from Magma 22 edited by David Boll
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By post from: Helen Nicholson, Magma Distribution, Flat 2, 86 St James's Drive, London SW17 7RR. Cheques or postal orders payable to Magma.
You can subscribe online here: http://magmapoetry.com/buy-magma/
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We welcome unpublished poems and original artwork by post or email. Contribution deadlines for the three issues are end of February, mid-July and end of October. Poems are considered for one issue only, not held over from one issue to another. We write to all contributors as soon as a decision is made. Postal contributions must be accompanied by an s.a.e. if posted in the UK and with sufficient International Reply Coupons if posted from abroad. The writer's name must appear on each page or image.
Contributions to: David Boll, Editorial Secretary.
By post at: Magma, 43 Keslake Road, London NW6 6DH
By e-mail at: magmapoetry@ntlworld.com
Electronic submissions: contributions@magmapoetry.com
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