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Issue 72
Farmers in Curly Pink Wigs? – Simon Armitage’s new poem.
The Crocodile God, an important long poem by Christina Dunhill.
Terror Of, Desire For – a new canzone from George Szirtes plus his Fish Music and two other poems.
Les Murray, two new poems, one about a Little Haiku, and the other about Little Terns.
Memoirs of a Basque Ice Skater – Harkaitz Cano translated by Amaia Gabantxo.
Hannah Lowe on Hannah Lowe
And poems by Sean Borodale, Jen Campbell, Dorothy Fryd, Harry Guest, Fiona Moore, Graham Mort, Jeremy Over, Julia Reckless, Chris Sparkes, Heidi Williamson, Anna Woodford, etc., etc.
Wonderful cover by Eric Ravilious.
Issue 71
Alan Brownjohn At The End Of The Pier.
Christina Dunhill – A New Myth, The Youngest Sister And The Crow.
Jane Griffiths makes A Blank Book.
The Lived Life: Hannah Lowe, Molly Naylor, Janet Rogerson, Nicola Bray.
Before And After – Bill Manhire’s Aldeburgh Masterclass.
John McAuliffe’s Aerialist.
Teach Yourself Circular Breathing with Marion Tracy.
Happy misunderstandings: Nathan Hamilton’s Younger Poets concluded.
Poems From Peter Bland, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Rosemary Norman, Neil Powell, Rosie Shepperd And Many Others.
Cover by Jonathan Gibbs.
Issue 70
Celebrating 25 years of The Rialto. Part 2
Nathan Hamilton and Part Two of his Team U35.
Classiest Classicism – Robert Wells’ Coin Cabinet.
Mud Flowers – Carole Coates visits Kor City.
Two poems each from three great poets – Jane Griffiths, Peter Scupham, and Susan Wicks.
Charlotte Gann and Hannah Lowe Wrestle with Love and Lovers.
Nathan Curnow – A New Australian Voice.
Jennifer Martin’s ‘You Hung the Moon’.
Poems from Zeeba Ansari, Alison Brackenbury, Carrie Etter, Helena Nelson, Penelope Shuttle, Catherine Smith, Emily Wills and Many Others.
Fabulous cover by Laura Barnard.
Issue 69
Celebrating 25 years of The Rialto. Part 1 – SOLD OUT
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.
Cover photograph by Patrick Sutherland.
Issue 68
Ck Williams – The World Is Torn
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‘Fenlanders’ A New Poem From Fleur Adcock.
Oliver Mort’s first poem in print – Belfast Described.
Joanna Clark’s suberb ‘Sonnets For Colin’ concluded.
The Class And After The Class: The Before And After Of Jamie Mckendrick’s Aldeburgh Masterclass.
Cath Drake Says It Didn’t Happen Until University.
Instead Of A Review, ‘The Torrent,’ A New Jenny Joseph Poem.
Celebrations, ruminations, new poems From Annemarie Austin, Sue Butler, Cathy Cullis, Martin Figura, Linda France, Emily Hinshelwood, Lawrence Sail, Etc., Etc.
Fantastic cover by Penny Bhadresa.
Issue 67
Three new poems by Simon Armitage.
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. The first part of Joanna Clark’s sequence Sonnets For Colin.
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.
Cover etching, Blythburgh Marshes by Chrissy Norman.
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Issue 66 – SOLD OUT
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.
Two poems by Anna Crowe and her translations (with the originals) of poems by Pedro Serrano, who lives in Mexico, and Catalan poet Joan Maragrit.
Several readers wrote in to say how much they love the cover by Paul Jackson.
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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. Pascal Petit’s poem about the Siberian Ice Maiden.
Six poems from Gillian Allnutt.
Poems from Penelope Shuttle, Les Murray, Colette Bryce, John Siddique.
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.
Cover photograph by Richard Heeps.
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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.
Cover, ‘First Snows of Winter’ by Mark Hearld.
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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.
Cover photograph, ‘Naked’ by Steve Denby.
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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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