LOCATION
BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME
ABOUT THE EVENT
TIME
Saturday - 2:30pm
PRICE
£10 / £8
Join us for a live version of the magazine with editors and poets who have been part of the Magma journey.
This LIVE version of Magma looks at recent issues, including Obsidian and Performance, and the current Grassroots issue, and explores what future issues aim to achieve through a dynamic showcase with audience interaction.
A great line-up of poets will share their work and link it to Magma features. Elontra Hall and Sim Pereira-Madder will discuss performance poetry, taking their lead from the exchange in the Performance issue. Co-editor Josiane Smith will lead the discussion and take questions from the audience.
The Reviews element of Magma, delivered by reviews editor Aoife Lyall, pays tribute to Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam, his posthumous collection published by Faber. Gboyega was Magma’s co-Chair and is now its Presiding Spirit and while Magma misses a dear friend and colleague, we celebrate his legacy and urge people to support the Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation for low-income Black writers.
Magma’s Inspired Feature will be performed by Amy Acre - a good friend of Magma and Judge of this year's annual competition. She will share insights into what she looks for in competition-winning poems and take questions from the audience as well as reading from her celebrated first collection, Mothersong (Boomsbury Poetry). Magma is proud to make Nafeesa Hamid our Selected Poet for the Verve Poetry Festival.