by Guest Blogger | Apr 21, 2011 | Blogs
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 writing, you can find me running an antiquarian bookshop in North London, surrounded by...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 6, 2010 | 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 | 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
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
by Guest Blogger | Apr 2, 2010 | News
The submissions doors are now closed and Flight Rialto U35 is underway. It looks to be a smooth one so far, with perhaps a little turbulence, but generally good weather is forecast. We’ve checked the cargo bay for stow-away over 40s and other potentially...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 23, 2010 | News
I’ve been asked by Michael Mackmin to organise a ‘ones to watch’ feature for The Rialto’s 25th anniversary edition — published in May and including poems from Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy and Tomaz Salamun, among many others. I have...
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