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MOVING ON FROM THE SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS
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 holiday' blog. And now we have moved beyond November. True there's a shiny new issue of the magazine out, [...]
Reminder
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 Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell, two of the best poets writing in Britain today. Young guns of the British poetry scene in the ’90s, they followed in the [...]
A Nocturnall on St Lucie’s Day
A Little Christmas Treat from The Editor. Reading A Nocturnall on St Lucie's Day, John Donne.
On a painting and poetry
Snowy Landscape at Eragny, with an apple tree, by Camille Pissaro, hangs in a Victorian wallpapered gallery in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Seeing it for the first time, I felt like when you open curtains on unsuspected snow. It’s late afternoon or mid morning, and the village of Eragny lies distant. There are foregrounded fields and, in [...]
NNF10 Event Photographs
I 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 fancy a look, quite few faces in there, and doubtless eventually I'll get round to [...]
Issue 69 of The Rialto now available
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 during its first quarter of a century. The issue also includes the first part of a [...]
Poetry champs
I've just had the slightly daunting task of trying to find all The Rialto covers from the last 25 years, scattered as they are to the four winds, or corners of the offices, studios and tenements we variously inhabit. It's thrown up some rather lovely things I'd forgotten both from before my time in residence and during it, some I've done, some [...]
Younger Poets Feature: Update
The submissions doors are now closed and Flight Rialto U35 is underway. It looks to be a smooth one so far, with perhaps a little turbulence, but generally good weather is forecast. We've checked the cargo bay for stow-away over 40s and other potentially explosive compounds, and ... OK, there's only so far you can stretch a metaphor before it [...]
Launch Party 1984
Launch Party Originally uploaded by Rialto Poetry Magazine Michael M has procured a few photos from way back in the mid 1980s, when The Rialto first thrust its shoots through the Norfolk soil. We've posted them on Flickr and used a few of them in the history of the magazine section. If you recognise anyone, or indeed yourself please let us [...]
