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 | 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...