Welcome to the website for The Rialto – the UK’s leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher. You can find out about our work here and buy magazines and books online, how to subscribe to the magazine and how to submit poetry and how long the process can take. There are also exclusive poems, articles and bits and pieces that aren’t available in The Rialto poetry magazine. So please have a look around and come back soon.
The Rialto is a poetry magazine that sets its bar perennially high. The formula is simple but effective: exceptional poetry and lots of it. - The Guardian
Online magazine and book sales
YOU CAN BUY ONLINE IN OUR SHOP HERE.
You can now buy The Rialto direct from us buy going to the Subscriptions page here. Most of our publications are now available directly from The Rialto through this website using the secure Paypal system. Alternatively you can also purchase The Rialto poetry magazine and our poetry books and some back issues through Inpress Books, specialists in supporting small presses. Just click on the links to go to their secure website or go direct to the Rialto area of the Inpress site.
Issue 69 Celebrating 25 years of the Rialto – now available
LOOK OUT: NATHAN HAMILTON INTRODUCES HIS GENERATION
ANDREW MOTION – ‘A GHOST STORY’
LES MURRAY AND HIS GREASEPROOF ROSE
CAROL ANN DUFFY CELEBRATES JOHN BARLEYCORN
TOMAŽ ŠALUMUN – INSANE FROM HAPPINESS
GEORGE SZIRTES, ‘CANZONE, THE SMALL OF THE BACK’
FOLKLORE ETC., ‘HARE’ BY ABIGAIL PARRY, CHRISTINA DUNHILL’S ‘FAIRYTALE EXTRACT’,
HELEN KITSON IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
STEVE SPENCE AND HIS PIRATES
POEMS FROM FLEUR ADCOCK, ALLAN CROSBIE, MICHAEL LASKEY, JOANNE LIMBURG, LORRAINE MARINER, JOHN MOLE, ROSEMARY NORMAN, DEAN PARKIN, NEIL POWELL, JOHN WAKEMAN
You can buy the new issue of magazine here
New Bridge Pamphlet out now:
The Night Is Young by Peter Sansom!
Twenty-one new poems by a brilliant craftsman. This beautiful and delicious new pamphlet (£5.50, incl., P&P) is only available directly from The Rialto please click here to read more and purchase the pamphlet.
You can of course still send us a cheque or Postal Order – and your address of course if you would prefer.
Older Issues
Issue 67 The Rialto is still available, click here to buy it from Inpress. Issue 66 is now sold out. Other issues are also available, please either check with Inpress or contact us by email to enquire.
The Rialto has received invaluable support from Arts Council England.
