From The Editor

The Editor is back from two weeks holiday in Italy. We watched spectacular sunsets over the Sibylline mountains, endured a huge electric storm, a day and night of torrential (that’s the word) rain, another day of dark cloud cover (the oft mentioned blanket of...

How do I get my poems published in The Rialto?

‘A writer has to spin his work out of himself and the effect upon the character is often disastrous. It inflates the ego.’ Elizabeth Goudge, A City Of Bells. I wish I could tell you. A poem on any subject, in any style, might succeed. When we started the magazine we...
NNF10 Event Photographs

NNF10 Event Photographs

We 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...
On Thomas Bouesset

On Thomas Bouesset

Among those figures who emerge occasionally from the back of my mind, people like the Twenties’ singer Blind Blake who played ragtime and blues across the southern states before everyone plugged in and moved to Chicago, or the thirteenth-century wandering architect of...