WHAT NEWS ON THE RIALTO?
All the latest news, blogs and opinions from staff and guest writers.
Blogs
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
What is the point of making teenagers write poetry?
A day at the poetry
The Cley Little Festival of Poetry, in my experience, circles around the village of Cley but doesn’t settle there, ranging between Sheringham and Wiveton along the coast road.
Riding the Line
I was moved to write this piece after reading a Robert Penn article in this month’s Cycling Plus where he argues that poetic thinking and cycling are incompatible, and quotes
Education in poetry
This is the first of what will hopefully become an ongoing series of guest blogs featuring regularly on The Rialto website.
Education in poetry
During the day, when I’m not
A Nocturnall on St Lucie’s Day
On a painting and poetry
Snowy Landscape at Eragny, with an apple tree, by Camille Pissaro, hangs in a Victorian wallpapered gallery in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
On Difficult-to-find Books
Brian Patten’s brilliant BBC radio essay on lost poets – and the one whose poems astonished me the most was Rosemary Tonks – made me think of the poets I
On the voice and poetry
Masha Zrabl
There’s a feeling when you see a stranger who resembles someone you once knew, of being thrown off kilter, caught between two people, one present before you and the other
Down at the White Horse, Feat. Bob the Barman
During my ‘poetry adventure’ in New York, I had a drink with a cool guy called Peter at The White Horse.
New York: A Little Poetry Adventure
I recently undertook a bit of a poetry adventure. It was across the pond, in a place called New York.