MAGMA poetry magazine Issue 57 is dedicated to Visual Poetry and is edited by Ian McEwen and Hannah Lowe.  It will be launched with readings by contributors at The Troubadour, 263 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5 9JA on Monday 18 November at 8.00pm. The issues features The Shaped Poem, an article by Paula Claire, with illustrations by Mirella Bentivoglio, Karl Kempton, Fernando Aguiar and Shoji Yoshizawa. Paula Claire’s own work is represented by her scorch mark poem MAGMA (1973), shown above, published by Writers Forum in 1978.