Manchester Literature Festival- Magma Poetry

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.