Magma, is a London-based poetry magazine, publishing work on and about poetry. It is known for appointing a different editor for each new  issue.

Magma 94 will be edited by Elontra Hall, Willie Lee Kinard III and Lola Oh . Its thematic focus will be on "Remix".

For this issue of Magma, we ask that you send us your poems that carry an expressed spirit rendered so differently that they are a new thing.

“You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you know where you come from, it’s easier to get where you’re going.” – Quincy Jones

Take inspiration from where you will: music, film, art, translation, poetry, and of course previous issues of our back catalogue as your inspiration to sample or riff or interpolate.

We are interested in the apparent, necessary concepts of remixing, but equally, we welcome submissions that push the boundaries of what remix means and how we understand it. Ultimately, they should release you from your own predetermined limits.

How will your spin on things make it new? Surprise us and, if you can, yourself.

“for there are no new ideas. there are only new ways of making them felt – of examining what those ideas feel like […]” – Audre Lorde

What but a remix is a timeless way to evolve and live more vibrantly now considering the past?

What but a remix is the same sound with new words holding trying spirits just as deeply, firmly onto the parts of us that call out for the ineffable?

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” –Toni Morrison

A Note on Fair Use: Mere exploitation of existing copyrighted material, including uses that are solely “decorative” or “entertaining,” should be avoided. Likewise, the mere application of computer technology does not, in itself, render quotation or re-use of an existing poem fair. If recognizable in the final product, quotations should be brief in relation to their sources, unless there is an articulable rationale for more extensive quotation. The poet should provide attribution in a conventionally appropriate form unless it would be truly impractical or artistically inappropriate to do so.

HOW TO SUBMIT

• The submissions window for ‘Remix’ is open 1st – 31st July 2025
• We welcome poems that have not been previously published in print, online, or broadcast.
• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission or contact us if it is accepted for publication somewhere else first.
• You may submit up to 4 previously unpublished poems: ONLINE via Submittable in a single Word or PDF document, OR BY POST to Magma 94 Submissions, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton, SM5 4ES. Postal submissions are accepted from the UK and Ireland only. Postal submissions are not acknowledged until a decision is made.