Magma is delighted that Annie Freud guest edits the new issue of the magazine. Annie chose the theme of the devil and all his works, and she says:
“I was pleased to find that to ’speak of the devil’ is still evidently stimulating to the poetic imagination. I was on the look-out for poems that approached it in unconventional ways …[and] I was rewarded with some outstanding poems by poets from the previously unpublished to well known names including Matthew Sweeney, Jo Shapcott, John Stammers and Roddy Lumsden.
Poems
| June Lausch | The food taster of Lydia |
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| Susan Grindley | Red admirals and small tortoiseshells |
| Tim Wells | The Early Throes |
| Nancy Gaffield | Last mango in Paris |
| Kerri French | Injured Outside British Library, Amy Winehouse claims to hear devil in books |
Articles
| Poetry in Practice: The Book of Emma | Lachlan Mackinnon writes about a special kind of inspiration. Lachlan Mackinnon’s fourth collection of poems, Small Hours (Faber) includes The Book… |
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| Desert Island Styx | Announcer: As part of our season celebrating The Devil and all his Works, a special literary edition of Desert Island… |
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