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IN THE RIALTO
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HANNAH LOWE: On Reading For The Faber New Poets
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
Editing for The Rialto III: putting the new magazine together, broadening the catchment
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
The RSPB / Rialto Poetry Competition: Highly Commended Entries
You can read the four prize-winning poems and judge Ruth Padel’s report in the Wet Winter issue of The Rialto, out now;
Editing for The Rialto II – reading the poems
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.
Editing for The Rialto
News
The Cley Little Festival of Poetry 2012
Saturday June 2nd
ALL DAY EVENTS
Poetry Bookstall and coffee from 10.30am
Poetry magazines and other publications from the invited poets/publisher plus hopefully a second-hand poetry bookstall.
Poetry Tree
An
Our funding confirmed
Funding confirmed for The Rialto Poetry magazine
Norfolk-based poetry magazine The Rialto has received confirmation that it had been successful in its application to Arts Council England for funding through
An Evening with Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell
The Rialto and Writers’ Centre Norwich present:
An Evening with Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell
Thursday 19 May, 7.30pm at Norwich Playhouse
Don’t miss out on the chance to see
About the rialto
WELCOME
Welcome to the website for The Rialto, where you can find out who we are and what we do, read poems from the magazine, and connect up with our social media pages. You can buy subscriptions, single copies, pamphlets and books. You can learn how to submit your poetry for possible publication, and you can read articles and blogs by the editors, poets and guest writers.
The Rialto magazine is edited by Michael Mackmin working with Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Will Harris and Degna Stone, who are graduates of our Editor Development Programme.
We’d like to say thank you to our loyal subscribers and to the Arts Council of England whose support and encouragement over years have made possible The Rialto. We invite you, reader, to join the team: help make poetry happen by subscribing now.
THE MAGAZINE
The founding editors, Michael among them, believed in a ‘Republic of Poetry’, an inclusive and diverse world of poetry, one that was open to experiment in form and content. We strive to keep this vision alive.
The magazine appears three times a year and each issue, with its spacious A4 pages, has fifty or so poems, an editorial and occasional, commissioned, prose pieces. Most of the space is occupied by the best new poems we can find, all wrapped up in our famously vibrant beautiful covers.
The Rialto has been called ‘Simply the best’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘A terrific magazine’ by Seamus Heaney.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
At the start of the new millennium The Rialto published a short run of first collections. In 2005 we turned our energy to publishing pamphlets and began our Bridge Pamphlets list. These have so far been by poets who we’ve asked to submit work. We also run a poetry pamphlet competition which has become a fixture of how we discover new work. Oh, and we haven’t forgotten about first collections – we launched Dean Parkin’s The Swan Machine at last autumn’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and published Matt Howard’s award winning Gall in 2018.
Laura Scott’s pamphlet What I Saw won the Michael Marks Award in 2014, and several of our first collections are winners of major awards.
“The Rialto is the poetry magazine to read – publishing poems that are formally inventive and alive to the ‘here and now’ of the world, but always with a commitment to the humane and compassionate qualities I believe the best poetry has. It has led the way in nurturing new talent.”
“The magazine is consistently one of, if not the best spotter of emerging talent in the UK – as a writer you know that you have arrived if one of your poems goes in. It’s more than an imprimatur of quality – it’s a rite of passage.”
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POEMS IN THE RIALTO
The purpose of this section of the site is to allow us to showcase or preview poems in our publications.
We hope to invite writers of the poems to respond and give their view of the work.
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