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Autumn 2017
November to November – this has been a difficult year. There have been deaths, illnesses, ruptures of relationships, losses, that have affected me strongly. And I decided to add in, a few months back, the decision to sell my house and move to a smaller one,...
Nature and Place winners announced
We have now received the results of the Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Kathleen Jamie and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Marsh thistle’ by Jemma Borg 2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Harold Wilson Rows Towards Bishop Rock’ by...
The Rialto Newsletter, February 2017
January, though it might be a month for resolute and joyous new beginnings is also, for self- employed persons like myself, the month when the Inland Revenue threatens punishment if you don't submit your Tax Return. It's possibly this shadow that makes the month slow...
The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2016: results
We are delighted to announce that Sean Wai Keung has won The Rialto’s first Open Pamphlet Competition. Hannah Lowe, our judge, says: “I loved these poems for their simultaneous sense of puzzlement and wisdom about the world, and specifically the things Sean Wai Keung...
Introducing our new pair of assistant editors
We’re delighted to announce the next two assistant editors who will be taking part in our Editor Development Programme: Will Harris and Joanna Thompson. They will be working with Michael and me (Fiona) on the next issue of The Rialto for early 2017 and will have...
April 2016
I thought that as it's April I'd put a photo of primroses at the head of this Newsletter. So I went up to the coast to the place I thought I'd get a good picture, along the cliffs east of Cromer (yes, contrary to the famous Noel Coward quote, there are cliffs in...
Blogs
HANNAH LOWE: On Reading For The Faber New Poets
I was one of the six readers commissioned last summer to sift and assess the anonymous entries for the Faber New Poets competition – our job was to each select
Editing for The Rialto III: putting the new magazine together, broadening the catchment
The Rialto arrived at the end of last week. It’s strange to open a poetry magazine whose contents you know, down to the last comma – have discussed and selected
The RSPB / Rialto Poetry Competition: Highly Commended Entries
You can read the four prize-winning poems and judge Ruth Padel’s report in the Wet Winter issue of The Rialto, out now;
Editing for The Rialto II – reading the poems
When I opened the first yellow cardboard folder full of poems, I had no idea what I’d find. That is still the case, though now I can make some guesses.
Editing for The Rialto
The autumn issue has just arrived.
September 2013
When I came to type up the poems I’d accepted for the ‘Summer’ Rialto (No.
Encountering the Incalculable: A Walk in the Norfolk Broads
There’s no poetry in money, and no money in poetry, yet I still enter the odd competition.
Writing to order and fishing for poems – Joanna Guthrie
I swam in the sea at Dunwich this morning, conscious as ever of the old lost city below me.
Yesterday, I lived there – Jen Campbell
This is a little about me. I’m from a village in the north-east of England, near the sea. It’s not far from Newcastle.
Libretto – Joanna Guthrie
You may like to treat yourself to a quick look at this, from the Waveney and Blyth Arts website:
“This is Waveney &
Sheep – Michael Mackmin
If I invert Sir Philip Sidney’s famous maxim (‘to teach and to delight’) I get a statement, of sorts, that the key to learning to be a reader of poetry
‘Raw Hamburger Mossing in the Watery Stoppage’ – Andrew McDonnell
In 2009 I attended a seminar on ‘Pattern Completion’ at Gimpel Fils gallery in London.