The Rialto Magazine
Three issues a year, 150 poems, poetry news & views…
Established in 1984, The Rialto features international names and established poets alongside emerging talents – it’s the poetry magazine to read to find out about what’s happening in poetry today.
Each issue features the best new poems, a lively editorial, letters page and news from the poetry world. The cover images are created by some of the best contemporary artists, illustrators and photographers.
Visit Editor’s Choice for fascinating insights into Editor Michael Mackmin’s choice of poems for The Rialto.Poetry gives us essential human pleasures and rewards, not least because it allows us to discover richer versions of ourselves. The Rialto, being reliably full of excellent new work, is an excellent place to find these pleasures and rewards.
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Issue 67
No 67 has three new poems by Simon Armitage, and four new poems by Alan Brownjohn, about Ludbrooke, a ‘rather dubious alter ego’. Well known names included are Gerard Benson, Martyn Crucefix, David Holbrook, David Morley, and Ruth Silcock. At the other end of reputation we have Ray Marshall’s first poem to appear in print. There’s the first part of Joanna Clark’s sequence Sonnets For Colin, also two rhymed pieces, refreshing, sardonic, from Helena Nelson and Alan Dixon. 53 poets, 30 are female, 23 male.
Lorraine Mariner writes about herself and Jessica Elton, the central character in her first collection, and Jessica Elton responds. Rennie Parker looks at the cost of becoming a poet. Emily Wills remembers U A Fanthorpe.
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Issue 66 - SOLD OUT
Has poems from George Szirtes, more from Les Murray, Judith Kazantzis,
Lorraine Mariner, John Mole, Sam Riviere, Rosie Shepperd, Tariq Latif and
many others. Also there’s work from a new writer Nadia Al Fazil-Kareem
(four poems), and an article by Catherine Smith on how she became a poet.
There’s two poems by Anna Crowe and then her translations (with the originals)
of poems by Pedro Serrano, who lives in Mexico, and the Catalan poet Joan
Margrit. Several readers have also written to say how much they love the
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Issue 65
Peter Scupham’s ‘Figures In A Landscape: 1944’ this is a major poem about
childhood during the Second World War - any child, any war for that matter-
by a major poet. There’s Pascal Petit’s poem about the Siberian Ice Maiden,
six poems from Gillian Allnutt, poems from Penelope Shuttle, Les Murray,
Colette Bryce, John Siddique. Then there’s Steve Spence’s mysterious and
oddly topical poems about pirates. And many other poets and poems. Marianne
Burton’s article on Being Mentored has attracted a lot of interest too.
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Issue 64
Jane Draycott translates Pearl, Alexis Orgera reveals the truth
about pets, Joel Lane updates The Emperor, Stuart McCarthy, never before
in print, is now. Lighthouses, islands, coracles, buttercups, termites,
tents and body parts. New poems from Zeeba Ansari, Annemarie Austin, Sebastian
Barker, Danielle Hope, Judith Lal, Adham Smart and many others.
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Issue 63
Dean Young has sex with strangers, Anthony Coleman, F15's on strike mission.
From China to Peru, poets and exile. Emily Berry and Sue Boyle — rich new
voices. Formal dinner with Ana Pascal. New poems from Josephine Dickinson,
Jane Draycott, Jo Haslam, Les Murray, Frank Newsum et. al.
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Issue 62
Peter Scupham celebrates W.H. Auden, Penelope Shuttle on The Silence of
Tony Blair, Fleur Adcock on Fleur Adcock, six last poems by Julia Casterton,
Sarah Cuddon’s Siege, Sarah Corbett’s Dreaming History and
poems by Anna Adams, Tom Duddy, Sheree Mack, Les Murray, Jack Underwood
and many others. Cover image by Paula Rego.
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Issue 61
New long poem by David Constantine, major Catalan poet Joan Margarit in
conversation with his translator, Scottish poet Anna Crowe, and the winners
of the Young Poets Competition. New poems by Mandy Coe, Joanna Guthrie,
Tajinder Singh Hayer, Helena Nelson, Rosemary Norman, Carole Satyamurti
and Susan Wicks.
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Issue 60
Six new poems by award-winning Gillian Allnutt, a major new piece by TS
Eliot prize-winner George Szirtes plus the amazing Lorraine Mariner's Thursday.
Poems by David Constantine, Tobias Hill, Herbert Lomas, Patricia Pogson,
Penelope Shuttle and Catherine Smith. Gillian Allnutt and Peter Sansom
in 'Poets by Themselves'.
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Issue 59
Three new poems by Australia's leading poet, Les Murray, and two from
Jenny Joseph (author of 'When I'm old I'll wear purple'), who also talks
about her forthcoming book in the popular 'Poets by Themselves' series.
Plus established names like Peter Sansom, John Sewell, Lawrence Sail and
New Generation poet Catherine Smith alongside new translations of Rilke
and Octavio Paz.
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Issue 57
Including new poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Simon Armitage, Esther
Morgan and Joanne Limburg. Preview of Sean O’Brien’s major new
translation of Dante’s Inferno and interview with Lotte Kramer, who relives
her exiled childhood. Emerging writers including Chris Beckett, Tajinder
Singh Hayer and America’s Virgil Renfroe.
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