Magma Poetry: The Antarctic Issue Launch

20.11.26. 6.30–8pm. Free but booking recommended. a primordial conversation emerges ghostlike out of the gross inadequacy of language Filippo Rossi Come celebrate the launch of this edition of Magma Poetry, one of the UK’s leading poetry magazines. This issue is themed entirely around Antarctic poetry: there will be readings, video, a projected backdrop of rarely seen Antarctic photos, with an ambient soundtrack. Each issue of Magma has a unique theme and team of editors. The editors for M96: The Antarctic Issue are poet and novelist, Cheryl Moskowitz, Antarctic specialists and poets, Elizabeth Lewis Williams and Branwell Roberts. This 106pp issue features diverse and inspiring articles and poetry from an international array of writers as well as a stunning four-page foldout of photographs taken through a lens made from ice by South African environmental photographer Jean Brundrit. M96: The Antarctic From the imagined world of the Greek philosophers to Māori stories of far-southern oce