Two very different poets introduced Magma to the Manchester Literature Festival, giving the audience an extraordinary display of the talent and skill, which lines the pages of the ever-growing poetry magazine.
Jacqueline Saphra challenged the limit of her listeners’ squeamish boundaries with a (thankfully, brief) glance at her own conception, while Alan Buckley somehow managed to transform peaches, into a spine-chillingly seductive object of high eroticism. The magazine is only published three times a year, but provides a much-required spotlight on the wealth of talent in British poetry today.
