by Degna | Jun 19, 2016 | Poems in The Rialto
THE BOOZE by now, the booze is you, you are the booze, mid-rant you stand up too fast, keel over, turn your ankle and I’m supposed to help you up. Oh! the heat and stench of you cursing the world, cursing me, you burst into tears, blurt, ‘I’m...
by Degna | May 21, 2016 | Staff and Guest blogs
Shall I let you into a secret? Despite writing poetry seriously since 2010, despite my MA in Creative Writing and despite running a poetry magazine since 2012, I often think I have no idea what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s true. The nagging suspicion that I’m winging it...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 25, 2013 | Staff and Guest blogs
There’s no poetry in money, and no money in poetry, yet I still enter the odd competition. In doing so, I’m not seriously seeking to disprove this fundamental law of the known universe, but merely hoping to draw a small spotlight toward a poem that may have something...
by Nick Stone | Feb 2, 2012 | News
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 the National Lottery programme, ‘Grants for the Arts’. The...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 9, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
A weekend full of poems, poems on shop windows, in the free Poetry Paper, poems read and discussed by voices from all over the world. Voices presided over this year, it seemed, by Philip Larkin, probably polishing his glasses and adjusting his bicycle clips in...
by Michael Mackmin | Jun 14, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Cley Little Festival of Poetry, in my experience, circles around the village of Cley but doesn’t settle there, ranging between Sheringham and Wiveton along the coast road. They very generously invite me to suggest themes, poets etc., from time to time and...
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 16, 2011 | News
We have just received back the rather lovely printed Pamphlet of Hannah Lowe’s work. It is now available to order via Paypal, The pamphlet will be launched on April 1st, details will follow shortly. Hannah Lowe’s poems are hugely enjoyable, full of life as it is...
by Michael Mackmin | Feb 28, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog, News
There was an event in North Norfolk last weekend of such significance that I’m unsure whether to write about it or stay silent. You know how it is when you stumble down a track, a path that’s barely marked, into a small valley, a bay where the apples and...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 26, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
During my ‘poetry adventure’ in New York, I had a drink with a cool guy called Peter at The White Horse. I found out that the pub has an interesting story to it, which might be of interest to readers of The Rialto. I arranged to document it all the next...
by Guest Blogger | Apr 2, 2010 | News
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...