Gresham’s Festival of Nature Writing

by | Jan 31, 2011 | News

Our own Michael Mackmin and Peter Sansom of The Poetry Business and The North will be leading a poetry writing workshop at Gresham’s Festival of Nature Writing from 17th February to 19th February, 2011 at the Auden Theatre, Gresham’s School, Holt Festival...

October and November at The Rialto

by | Dec 1, 2010 | News

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...

At The Rialto – Late September

by | Sep 28, 2010 | 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...

Advertising

by | Sep 23, 2010 | News

We will hopefully in the next few issue be introducing a small amount of advertising to the magazine, we’ve considered this long and hard over a fairly long period of time, it’s involved a lot of tea, some cake and a fair bit of hmmming and hahing. The...

August News

by | Aug 31, 2010 | News

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...

Young Poets Feature Update

by | 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...

Essex Poetry Festival

by | Jul 6, 2010 | News

This year the festival will be running poetry workshops and readings around the county in conjunction with Essex Libraries and various poetry groups in Early October. Plus a big day of poetry at the Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford, where George Szirtes, Annie Freud,...
NNF10 Event Photographs

NNF10 Event Photographs

by | Jun 25, 2010 | News

We recently received a CD full of photographs taken by Martin Figura at the Les Murray and Andrew Motion evening we held with Writer’s Centre Norwich, rather than overwhelming the blog with all of them, they are available to view on our Flickr stream should you...

Issue 69 of The Rialto now available

by | May 20, 2010 | News

The current issue of the poetry magazine is now available from the link below. This one is a bit of a special ensemble, celebrating 25 years, or thereabouts, of the magazine’s existence; featuring, as always, plenty of poets who have appeared in the magazine...

No 69

by | May 5, 2010 | Blogs, 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...

Next issue

by | Apr 20, 2010 | News

Things continue rolling forward, we’re now working on the next issue (69) which should be available in time for the NNF Writers Centre Norwich do at The Playhouse all being well, cover is selected, a reappearance of work by an artist we featured a good few years...