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Rialto news – November/December 2019
Dodo Provocateur Anita Pati’s prize winner pamphlet, which we published in the first week in September, had it’s London launch on September 24th at The Poet an aptly chosen pub in Baring Street (N1 3DS). I put the post code in because I must have been one of the last...
On scientists and their poetry
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself using the phrase ‘think like a poet’ a lot, especially as the final idea I want to leave people with, at the end of beginning to write workshops. It sounds sufficiently exhortatory (especially if I’m windmilling my arms while...
The Rialto Pamphlet Competition Result
The following, in no particular order, are the shortlisted poets and pamphlets William Stephenson ‘The Butterfly Factory’ Rachael Matthews ‘Naming Boats’ Anita Pati ‘Dodo Provocateur’ Kat Dixon ‘Letters to Ex-Lovers I Will Never Send’ Patrick Davidson Roberts ‘The...
STAFF BLOGS
From The Editor
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.
No 69
Poetry champs
I’ve just had the slightly daunting task of trying to find all The Rialto covers from the last 25 years, scattered as they are to the four winds, or
Launch Party 1984
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
From the Editor – Issue 64
‘The Mandate’ by Joel Lane
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
From the Editor – Issue 65
Hearts and other organs
I remember a museum of glass bottles,
shelf after shelf rising to the ceiling.
Were the skylights domed?
From the Editor – Issue 66
Two poems in Magma and four in this issue of The Rialto is perhaps not enough evidence to warrant announcing a startling new poet.
Helena Nelson
It began when Helena’s pamphlet collection, Mr and Mrs Philpott on Holiday at Aucherawe & Other Poems, was published by Kettillonia Press (www.kettillonia.co.uk/) in 2001.
GUEST BLOGS
Guest Blog: On Tŷ Newydd – Breda Wall Ryan
‘Our latest blog is by Breda Wall Ryan who was a prize winner in the 2013 Nature Poetry competition. Breda writes of her experience on the week-long course generously donated by Tŷ Newydd’. Naturally I was thrilled when my poem ‘The Inkling’ was awarded third place in...
What are they looking for?
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...
Rialto 84 Editorial: Aldeburgh, and some poems in the magazine
Laura Scott goes to Greece
My Rialto pamphlet won the Michael Marks prize, and part of the prize is that you get to go to Greece for two weeks to be the poet in residence for Harvard University’s Hellenic summer school. I think if someone were to ask me what was the best single thing about this experience, I would say that it showed me how to write about big things without fear.
‘Lessons from Press Gang and other submissions’
