Magma

Yesterday, this came through the post:

And page 68, there I am. Or there my poem, Estuary, is, to be more accurate. I’ve long admired Magma, and I’ve long wanted to be published by them. And yesterday it happened. I’m very pleased.

There’s a launch party on the 22nd November in London Bridge, where I’ll read Estuary, and possibly an additional poem. It’s a long time since I’ve done a reading, so can’t wait. I was tempted to fly up to Edinburgh for the Scottish launch the following day, but giddy as I am at the thought, practicalities won out.

Quick aside: I don’t know the etiquette about sharing the poem outside a journal. If it was online, I’d share a link to the website and encourage people to click through, but because it’s print, I don’t know if it’s OK to take a photograph of the poem on the page, and post that on here or Twitter? Does that undermine sales, or does it act as a loss leader to bring people to the journal? I am sure every journal has a different take on it. Perhaps the kind thing is to wait until the next edition is out, at which point I’ll publish the poem here.

In the meantime, here’s a snippet: