by Guest Blogger | Feb 15, 2015 | Staff and Guest blogs
The assistant editorship of The Rialto is helping me let poems take over my flat. I recently finished teaching a reading group for The Poetry School so my Wall Of Hill (entirety of Mercian Hymns photocopied and arranged on my bedroom wall so I could scribble notes)...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 12, 2014 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
From our Vimeo Channel. Lorraine Mariner – Poetry Dreams from The Rialto on...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 14, 2014 | Staff and Guest blogs
I was one of the six readers commissioned last summer to sift and assess the anonymous entries for the Faber New Poets competition – our job was to each select ten or so manuscripts which would be finally judged by a panel at Faber. The winners have just been...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 18, 2013 | News
Arc Publications are launching ten of their titles, current and classic, as ebooks. These are available now on Amazon, and will be available on Kobo imminently, followed by Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Google Play Books and Apple iBooks. For a publisher who specialises in...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 25, 2013 | Staff and Guest blogs
There’s no poetry in money, and no money in poetry, yet I still enter the odd competition. In doing so, I’m not seriously seeking to disprove this fundamental law of the known universe, but merely hoping to draw a small spotlight toward a poem that may have something...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 12, 2013 | News
Below are PDFs of the results of the 2012 Questionnaire and A selection of comments submitted. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us, it’s a great help in judging where we are going wrong and where we are going right. [prettyfilelink...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 3, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
I swam in the sea at Dunwich this morning, conscious as ever of the old lost city below me. Looking back at the tufted crumbling cliffs and then facing out to the hazy horizon, where the grey-gold water met the blue-grey sky, I thought about this recurring dream I...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 20, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
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. It’s near a haunted windmill that’s lost its top. It’s a place where we put raspberry sauce on our ice cream, but we...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 13, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
You may like to treat yourself to a quick look at this, from the Waveney and Blyth Arts website: “This is Waveney & Blyth Arts first commission to create new work that conjures up the spirit of these unique river valleys. Having successfully raised money...
by Guest Blogger | Apr 12, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
In 2009 I attended a seminar on ‘Pattern Completion’ at Gimpel Fils gallery in London. During the seminar, Dr Hugo Spiers, a neuroscientist at UCL, demonstrated how memory works with a marble game for children. He set off several marbles at the same time around a...
by Guest Blogger | Jan 10, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
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 more I learn, the more interesting I find them, and the more I find which can be applied to poetry. Here are some thoughts...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 20, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
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 out the radio like turkey-gravy down the chin of an elderly relative. The equinox...