by Degna | May 21, 2016 | Blogs
Shall I let you into a secret? Despite writing poetry seriously since 2010, despite my MA in Creative Writing and despite running a poetry magazine since 2012, I often think I have no idea what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s true. The nagging suspicion that I’m winging it...
by Michael Mackmin | May 16, 2016 | Blogs
If you can get to Great Yarmouth this week please do so and go to the Hippodrome. They’ve got the most astonishing production of The Tempest that I’ve ever seen. The Hippodome is an old indoor circus space, it’s a bit like being inside a work by...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 14, 2015 | Blogs
My Rialto pamphlet won the Michael Marks prize, and part of the prize is that you get to go to Greece for two weeks to be the poet in residence for Harvard University’s Hellenic summer school. I think if someone were to ask me what was the best single thing about this...
by Guest Blogger | May 13, 2015 | Blogs
Rishi Dastidar and I are working closely with The Rialto editor Michael Mackmin on a programme designed to teach us about the process and philosophy of poetry editing. Following the publication of The Rialto’s 81st issue, I met up online with Rishi to discuss how...
by Guest Blogger | Apr 2, 2015 | Blogs
I’ve been thinking about the law over the last couple of weeks. Not that I’m in any trouble I hasten to add – apart from the usual one that I’m sure some of you have also been quizzed on by other members of the family: “Yes this poeting is all well and good, but when...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 20, 2015 | Blogs
As I write this, the latest edition of The Rialto is at the proofing stage and the last of the biographical notes are slipping in by the skin of their teeth. It feels a bit strange, having spent months getting to know poems, to now have a task focused on poets. In...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 20, 2015 | Blogs
Holly Hopkins and I, your editorial developees, have been asked to shed some light upon what we actually get up to when attending an editorial meeting of The Rialto. Herewith, a joint diary of a recent trip to Norwich, where selection of some poems took place. NB:...
by Rishi Dastidar | Jan 13, 2015 | Blogs
We’ve had the decorators in at home for the last few weeks. Nothing major – a few licks of paint here and there, a new light switch or two; the hey, have you had your hair cut? level of change. But what I found most surprising was my reaction of getting in of an...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 14, 2014 | 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 Fiona | Feb 17, 2014 | Blogs
The Rialto arrived at the end of last week. It’s strange to open a poetry magazine whose contents you know, down to the last comma – have discussed and selected, and then proof-read down to the last comma. I hope there aren’t any mistakes. On starting to read...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 14, 2014 | Blogs
You can read the four prize-winning poems and judge Ruth Padel’s report in the Wet Winter issue of The Rialto, out now; order it here. And below, as promised, are the six Highly Commended entries, in alphabetical order. STARLINGS ...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 27, 2013 | Blogs
When I opened the first yellow cardboard folder full of poems, I had no idea what I’d find. That is still the case, though now I can make some guesses. I did have a couple of vague assumptions, probably derived from comments by competition judges and editors, notably...
Rialto Magazine 102
£9.00
Rialto Magazine 101
£9.00
Poetry with an axe to grind
£12.00
Rialto Magazine 100
£9.00
Rialto Magazine 99
£9.00
