Call for Submission: Magma 95, Architecture

Co-edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg

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This forthcoming issue of Magma grows out of our collaboration with architecture scholars which began during a conference at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in Spring 2025. The conference, Poetic Spatial Writing, invited us to work with architecture scholars and students in order to explore creative approaches within their research, blurring the boundaries between academic and artistic practice. We’re delighted to bring that conversation into Magma 95, through poems and prose that explore structure, space, and the act of construction itself. We hope to share more of this collaborative project in the pages of Magma 95.

We invite poems that consider architecture both as subject and method—that work through structure, proportion, rhythm, and light. What is a home if not the language we construct within and around ourselves—with bricks, air, arches, and thresholds?

We are looking for poems whose form is inseparable from content; poems that build meaning through their architecture—whether literal or metaphorical, interior or exterior, ruin or revelation. We want to read poems that take us into substantial, inhabitable structures of thought; poems that invite us to walk through their spaces, feeling how syntax, line, and silence hold and release meaning.

We also welcome work that engages with physical or imagined architecture—the spaces we live in, move through, or dream about:
• urban grids, towers, ruins, infrastructures, rooms, and landscapes shaped by human;
• questions of shelter and exposure, boundary and permeability;
• architecture as repositories of memory, the self, social and private experiences and encounters;
• and poems whose very shapes on the page evoke tension, symmetry, or collapse.

We want poems that challenge and trust their readers; that are complex not through obscurity but precision—poems in which every word, every placement, matters.