Announcing our re-launch!
Dear friend, After a hiatus, the Glasgow Review of Books is back! We will be re-launching the title as an online review journal in early July 2023. And we need your help! About:… Continue reading
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NEW POETRY APRIL-MAY 2020 SELECTION: MAGI GIBSON, JOCK STEIN, AND BRIAN BEATTY
MAGI GIBSON has had five poetry collections published, including the popular Wild Women of a Certain Age. The National described her latest, Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks, as “A joy to read”. A new… Continue reading
THE SEA OR THE MOUNTAIN: Two Histories of Environmental Thinking
[A slightly modified version of this chapter will appear in Steve Mentz, Ocean (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)] By Steve Mentz The Mountain rears itself high, aloof and majestic. He sees and knows. Nothing is… Continue reading
The State of the Poetic Nation: StAnza 2020
Editors Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue were invited to be “bloggers-in-residence” at Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza in St Andrews, which took place from 4–8 March 2020. By Rebecca DeWald and Samuel Tongue Only… Continue reading
I AM A ROHINGYA: POETRY FROM THE CAMPS AND BEYOND
I am a Rohingya: Poetry from the Camps and Beyond. Edited by James Byrne and Shehzar Doja (Arc Publications, 2019) Review Essay by Alycia Pirmohamed What lives in the silences between the muezzin’s recitation of the… Continue reading
NEW POETRY JANUARY-MARCH 2020 SELECTION: GEORGI GILL, COLIN BANCROFT, JANE FRANK, and SHARA MCCALLUM
GEORGI GILL a poet and PhD researcher with the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the role of poetry in dialogues about multiple sclerosis. Her chief areas of critical… Continue reading
CLIMATE CHANGE POETRY: IS IT EFFECTIVE?
by Eveline Pye There have been several initiatives designed to encourage poets to write about climate change. Magma devoted an entire issue to climate change in 2018. Extinction Rebellion Oxford is currently soliciting… Continue reading
SHOWCASE: NEW POEMS BY EILEEN CHONG
EILEEN CHONG is a poet based in Sydney, Australia. She was born in Singapore of Chinese descent. Her poetry collections are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014), Painting Red Orchids (2016), and Rainforest (2018), all from Pitt Street Poetry, Sydney. Chong writes… Continue reading
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED!
Dear Readers and Writers, Submissions are currently closed, but will re-open later in the year. We’ve got some exciting plans for 2020 – keep an eye on our Twitter page for developments! Happy… Continue reading
MANIC EPISODES: ‘I AM DYNAMITE’ BY SUE PRIDEAUX
Sue Prideaux I Am Dynamite: A Life of Nietzsche (Faber & Faber) By Nicolas Hausdorf Biographies of philosophers are a cause for suspicion. Are they not attempts to dispel the mystique of the… Continue reading