by Nick Stone | Mar 30, 2010 | Blogs
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...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 23, 2010 | News
I’ve been asked by Michael Mackmin to organise a ‘ones to watch’ feature for The Rialto’s 25th anniversary edition — published in May and including poems from Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy and Tomaz Salamun, among many others. I have...
by Nick Stone | Mar 23, 2010 | News
On Tuesday 18th May, The Rialto will take part in an event in Partnership with Writer’s Centre Norwich, as part of the Norfolk and Norwich festival (NNF2010), to be held at the playhouse on St George’s Street in Norwich which will help to celebrate...
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 23, 2010 | News
The 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....
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 23, 2010 | Poems in The Rialto
THE MANDATE As the first ripple of the crowd’s laughter struck the air like a window breaking to let in a fresh autumn breeze, the Emperor lifted a bare arm and slowly wiped away a tear. ‘Oh child,’ he said gently, ‘if only you knew how much strength that laughter...
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 23, 2010 | Poems in The Rialto
Hearts and other organs I remember a museum of glass bottles, shelf after shelf rising to the ceiling. Were the skylights domed? Does it matter? The light was granite-flecked, dimly illuminating a Victorian freak-show of medical specimens – speckled, puckered,...
by Michael Mackmin | Mar 23, 2010 | Poems in The Rialto
Two poems in Magma and four in this issue of The Rialto is perhaps not enough evidence to warrant announcing a startling new poet. Nevertheless Nadia Al Fazil Kareem’s work is fresh and assured and has a voice of marvellous variety ranging from rage to laughter to...
by Nick Stone | Mar 9, 2010 | News
The new collection is now available, please scroll down to buy it directly from The Rialto. The latest in the series of Rialto Bridge Pamphlets, designed to cross the gap between magazine and book publication for new writers or, for established writers, that between...