Join us for the launch of Magma 95: Architecture, a special issue exploring the resonant intersections of poetry and the built environment.

Join us for the launch of Magma 95: Architecture, a special issue of the celebrated poetry magazine exploring the resonant intersections of poetry and the built environment. Hosted by co-editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg, this intimate evening brings together poets and architects for readings and conversation about space, memory, language and dwelling. The issue features a specially commissioned cover by artist Pablo Bronstein and a crown of sonnets developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge and The New School, exploring ideas of home, rooms within rooms, and diasporic experience.

About the Editors

Leo Boix’s Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and selected as poetry book of the year by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Week. He is the editor and translator of the groundbreaking Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry (Fourteen Publishing). Boix is the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize, the Keats-Shelley Prize, and a PEN Award.

Stav Poleg is the author of The Banquet (shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025) and The City (shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Collection 2023), both books published by Carcanet Press. Her poetry has appeared in leading publications on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry (Faber, 2024) and A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker (Knopf, 2025).

This event is proudly put on in collaboration with the Cambridge Poetry Festival.

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