by Michael Mackmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
If I invert Sir Philip Sidney’s famous maxim (‘to teach and to delight’) I get a statement, of sorts, that the key to learning to be a reader of poetry is in the ability to learn and to be delighted. And here’s something that will help tune you...
by Michael Mackmin | Dec 16, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
I have managed to give myself a very sharp attack of bloggers’ block. I came back to a grey Stansted on a comfortable and efficient Ryanair flight at the end of August firmly of the opinion that I’d quickly jot down a ‘what I did on my summer...
by Michael Mackmin | Jun 14, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Cley Little Festival of Poetry, in my experience, circles around the village of Cley but doesn’t settle there, ranging between Sheringham and Wiveton along the coast road. They very generously invite me to suggest themes, poets etc., from time to time and...
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 11, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
Dear Subscriber, We have had a serious computer glitch at The Rialto. This means that: Some of you haven’t yet received copies of No 71. We are finding out who you are and will send copies as soon as possible. Subscription Renewal notices were sent out in some...
by Michael Mackmin | Feb 28, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
There was an event in North Norfolk last weekend of such significance that I’m unsure whether to write about it or stay silent. You know how it is when you stumble down a track, a path that’s barely marked, into a small valley, a bay where the apples and...
by Michael Mackmin | Dec 15, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
A Little Christmas Treat from The Editor. Reading A Nocturnall on St Lucie’s Day, John...
by Michael Mackmin | Dec 1, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
I’m in Upper St Giles Street, Norwich having a cup of tea in what used to be a butcher’s shop but is now part deli, part posh caff (lads with laptops, etc). I’m a bit shaky, I’ve just got my car back from the menders. I was involved in a...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 28, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
Please come and meet Nathan and Michael at The Troubadour in Old Brompton Road (London SW6 9JA, just up the road from West Brompton tube, or via buses Nos 74, C1 430) on Monday October 4th at 8 p.m. There’s a Rialto reading, part of our ongoing 25th Jubilee. The...
by Michael Mackmin | Aug 31, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
I’m sipping a McDonald’s Hot Chocolate (maybe it’s properly called ‘McChocco TM’ or somesuch (no I checked the website it’s just Hot Chocolate, Regular or Large)) up in the sky at the top of Norwich’s Chapelfield Shopping...
by Michael Mackmin | Jun 30, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Editor is back from two weeks holiday in Italy. We watched spectacular sunsets over the Sibylline mountains, endured a huge electric storm, a day and night of torrential (that’s the word) rain, another day of dark cloud cover (the oft mentioned blanket of...
by Michael Mackmin | Jun 29, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
‘A writer has to spin his work out of himself and the effect upon the character is often disastrous. It inflates the ego.’ Elizabeth Goudge, A City Of Bells. I wish I could tell you. A poem on any subject, in any style, might succeed. When we started the magazine we...
by Michael Mackmin | May 5, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
The new The Rialto (No. 69) has gone to be printed. If all goes well (I’m always in full anxiety mode at this stage imagining catastrophes – why not the opposite?) this should prove to be a particularly startling and intriguing issue. It is scheduled to be ready...
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