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The Rialto Newsletter, February 2017
January, though it might be a month for resolute and joyous new beginnings is also, for self- employed persons like myself, the month when the Inland Revenue threatens punishment if you don't submit your Tax Return. It's possibly this shadow that makes the month slow...
The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2016: results
We are delighted to announce that Sean Wai Keung has won The Rialto’s first Open Pamphlet Competition. Hannah Lowe, our judge, says: “I loved these poems for their simultaneous sense of puzzlement and wisdom about the world, and specifically the things Sean Wai Keung...
Introducing our new pair of assistant editors
We’re delighted to announce the next two assistant editors who will be taking part in our Editor Development Programme: Will Harris and Joanna Thompson. They will be working with Michael and me (Fiona) on the next issue of The Rialto for early 2017 and will have...
April 2016
I thought that as it's April I'd put a photo of primroses at the head of this Newsletter. So I went up to the coast to the place I thought I'd get a good picture, along the cliffs east of Cromer (yes, contrary to the famous Noel Coward quote, there are cliffs in...
introducing the new Assistant Editors
The Rialto at Aldeburgh – November 2015
When I open my bedroom curtain to a wall of yellow I know it’s time for the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. The leaves are on sycamores rooted part way down a steep embankment, so I get the full canopy at eye level. This year one big tree has gone brilliant yellow, gold in the early sun, but the other is still green.
Blogs
Editing for The Rialto
September 2013
When I came to type up the poems I’d accepted for the ‘Summer’ Rialto (No.
Encountering the Incalculable: A Walk in the Norfolk Broads
Writing to order and fishing for poems – Joanna Guthrie
Yesterday, I lived there – Jen Campbell
This is a little about me. I’m from a village in the north-east of England, near the sea. It’s not far from Newcastle.
Libretto – Joanna Guthrie
You may like to treat yourself to a quick look at this, from the Waveney and Blyth Arts website:
“This is Waveney &
Sheep – Michael Mackmin
If I invert Sir Philip Sidney’s famous maxim (‘to teach and to delight’) I get a statement, of sorts, that the key to learning to be a reader of poetry
‘Raw Hamburger Mossing in the Watery Stoppage’ – Andrew McDonnell
Some Thoughts About Poetry and Comics – Chrissy Williams
My partner writes (but does not draw) comics. This means I have been learning more about comics that I might otherwise have deemed necessary.
The darkest evening of the year
The nights draw in again and the winter equinox gets buried beneath the white noise of Argos adverts, flashing santa’s (in both senses), and the warblings of X-Factor winners dribbling
MOVING ON FROM THE SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS
The Story of The Time-turner and The Lyrical Ostrich
Penzance literary festival is unlike any other’ reads the welcoming and informative website http://penzance-literary-festival.org.uk It’s a community festival, started last year, and organised again by a small number of