by Guest Blogger | Mar 20, 2015 | Staff and Guest 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 | Staff and Guest 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 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 Rishi Dastidar | Jan 13, 2015 | Staff and Guest 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 | 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 Fiona | Feb 17, 2014 | Staff and Guest 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 Fiona | Feb 14, 2014 | Staff and Guest 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 Fiona | Nov 27, 2013 | Staff and Guest 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...
by Fiona | Oct 21, 2013 | Staff and Guest blogs
The autumn issue has just arrived. This time it felt different: my name is on page 2, as one of the Assistant Editors (note the capitals), along with Abigail Parry. We have got this job for the next two issues, winter and spring, under The Rialto’s Editor Development...
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 | 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...
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