No 34 - Spring 2006 MP3 Issue contents of this issue bibliographic notice other issues online about this magazine search other magazines Contents   Cover Page     About Magma   Marsha Levin Untitled   Andrew Elliott Housewives of Nebraska   Julia Casterton A Spell Against Invisibility   Judy Brown Passenger   Eric Paul Shaffer A Humanity of Glass   Ian Mullins Out through the In Door   Tim Cunningham Mortuary   Angela Dove Self-portrait as a Drowned Man   Mark McGuinness Poetry in Practice: Creative Flow Mark McGuinness talks to some contemporary poets   Grzegorz Wróblewski What a Wonderful Feeling Translated by Adam Zdrodowski   David Lavar Coy Drinking the Wine List   Billy Collins Workshop   Lorraine Mariner The Writer After the sculpture by Giancarlo Neri   Ellen de Vries Arabic   Stephen Wilson Welsh-English Dictionary Table of mutations     Dazzlement for matthew francis   Paul Hodges Silence   Howard Wright Party-Piece   Machi Tawara Magma Showcase: Machi Tawara     From Salad Anniversary (1987) Translated by Quentin S. Crisp     From Pooh’s Nose (2005) Translated by Quentin S. Crisp   Helen Nicholson Ronald Frank (1918–2005) An appreciation by Helen Nicholson   Ronald Frank Leafmould is a Future Thing     A Day for Throwing Things Away     A Cool Hand   Iain D. Robinson The Reach of the Sea     A Movement in the Sky   Brian Docherty A Side Walk of New York From Memory Harbour: A Reading of Jack B. Yeats   Alison Brackenbury Geranium Rozanne   Caroline Natzler Easy?   Sharon Morris Artemis at Ephesus   Mary MacRae Virgin and Child from the studio of Roger van der Weyden   Judy Brown Foundation   Stephen Wilson Conservation Studio: Hermitage For Lara     Canzoniere After Petrarch No:3   David Morphet Official Visit   Vicci Bentley Presiding Spirits: David Harsent Redefining the Borders   Catherine Smith Heckmondwyke     Colin Pepper I Luv U   Tim Turnbull Ennui     On Comedy There’s something horrid in the castle yard. We know what it is and who did it but for God’s sake tell us where it is.Les Dawson The Les Dawson Show 1978   Kate Fox Caller 103 Wins the Madonna Tickets   Derek Adams Personal Belongings   Ellen de Vries Malin Head, N. Ireland   Katie Daniels Name Calling   Tom Osborne On, On!   Alastair Campbell Guest Choice Alastair Campbell chooses A une robe rose by Théophile Gautier   Théophile Gautier A une robe rose     A une robe rose Translated by Anthony Hartley   David Boll Measles   Myra Schneider Bird   Katherine Gallagher Laanecoorie   Wendy Tarleton Klein Havana   Paddy Bushe Holy Mountain for Alicia Torres     Memorial for Mick and Judy Delap   Mimi Khalvati Signal   Mo Gallaccio Switched Off   Sally Festing Winter Visitors for Caroline and John   Martyn Crucefix Reviews Safest by Michael Donaghy (Picador £12.99) and The Ghost Twin by Anne-Marie Fyfe (Peterloo £7.95)   Sally Festing Reviews Mr Irresistible by Angela Kirby (Shoestring Press £8.95), Look, Clare! Look! by Clare Pollard (Bloodaxe £7.95) and Take Me With You by Polly Clark (Bloodaxe £7.95)   Anna Woodford Reviews Stranded in Sub-Atomica by Tim Turnbull (Donut Press £10), Chasing the Hoopoe by John Weston (Peterloo £7.95) and Gothic Tales by Pat Earnshaw (Gorse Press £4.50)   Laurie Smith Reviews The Sea! The Sea! edited by Peter Jay (Anvil £7.95)   Jude Rosen The Negatives   Harry Guest Duloe for Penelope Shuttle   Maurice Riordan from Idylls   Judy Brown Ground   Andrew Geary A Fenland Harvest   Barbara Dordi Gleaning   Susan Wicks Small Women at Mont Orgueil Castle     Northern Lights   Kate Rhodes Aurora Borealis   Lynne Wycherley Three Variations on the Northern Lights   Eric Paul Shaffer All the Light Denies   Caroline Natzler A Little Lower   Andrew Elliott What Thomasina Told Me   Sea-Fever is the nation's favourite sea poem   Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall Hayward Gallery