Anima is a small press founded by Marcus James in 2015. It began from a wish to provide a home for contemporary poems which challenge the materialist paradigm of Western culture, offering the reader thoughtful and intelligent writing from perspectives beyond the everyday world of sense and reason—poems of metaphysics, mythology and symbolism, depth psychology and transcendence.

The magazine is currently quiescent, but we are currently accepting submissions for poetry collections and long poems that closely align with our vision. Please enquire before submitting by emailing the editor here.

Magazine

Anima published a bi-annual journal for contemporary ‘poems of soul and spirit’, co-edited by Marcus James and Alyson Hallett . The magazine was a beautifully produced, perfect-bound publication of some sixty pages. We published both free verse and formal poems, being particularly interested in work that brought a fresh and contemporary edge to traditional forms.  We are hoping to make back-issues available for digital download shortly.

Collections

We have also published collections by Isabel Chenot and a poem cycle, ‘Music’, by renowned Polish Poet Krzysztof Andrzej Jeżewski, translated by Patrick Corness [buy here].