by Guest Blogger | Nov 9, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
A weekend full of poems, poems on shop windows, in the free Poetry Paper, poems read and discussed by voices from all over the world. Voices presided over this year, it seemed, by Philip Larkin, probably polishing his glasses and adjusting his bicycle clips in...
by Guest Blogger | Aug 8, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
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 volunteers who have somehow succeeded in...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 4, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
Have you read any of Tom Warner’s work? You should. He’s an excellent poet. Which is why I was pleased but also a bit nervous to be working with him on a pilot project called Well Versed (run by Writers Centre Norwich and carried out by poets and teachers in schools...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 6, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
Snowy Landscape at Eragny, with an apple tree, by Camille Pissaro, hangs in a Victorian wallpapered gallery in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Seeing it for the first time, I felt like when you open curtains on unsuspected snow. It’s late afternoon or mid...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 20, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
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 like who are – not lost – but difficult to get hold of. In fact, getting hold of Rosemary Tonks’ two poetry...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Staff and Guest blogs
I like the idea of the voice being betwixt and between. Moving from the body out to the world. Of belonging neither to the world of objects (not a bodily thing) nor to that dreadful (dead-full) world of text – where when we read, all we try to do is get what the text...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 31, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
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 present only in your memory. I had such an experience in the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, looking...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 26, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
During my ‘poetry adventure’ in New York, I had a drink with a cool guy called Peter at The White Horse. I found out that the pub has an interesting story to it, which might be of interest to readers of The Rialto. I arranged to document it all the next...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 23, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
I recently undertook a bit of a poetry adventure. It was across the pond, in a place called New York. I heard once that a lot of poetry comes from there and I went to see for myself. And it’s true! The rules and agenda for this adventure were simple: 1) Find a...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 20, 2010 | News
Apropos nothing really, I awoke the other morning to a disturbing noise – a little bit like a large person wrestling a drunk whale might sound. I was pretty sure it wasn’t me. It couldn’t have been my digestion, for example – that tends a...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 19, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
Among those figures who emerge occasionally from the back of my mind, people like the Twenties’ singer Blind Blake who played ragtime and blues across the southern states before everyone plugged in and moved to Chicago, or the thirteenth-century wandering architect of...
by Guest Blogger | May 25, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
There is nothing so tedious and wonderful as a list of books. I once attended an academic conference held at a boarding school run by monks. A strange place, especially out of term, when the monastic round of lauds, compline etc. continued in the mostly empty...
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