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All the latest news, blogs and opinions from staff and guest writers.NEWS
Nature poetry competition winners announced
We have now received the results of the Nature Poetry Competition back from Simon Armitage and are delighted to announce that the winners are:
Nature poetry competition longlist
Below is a copy of the long list, alphabetical by surname. Thanks to everyone who entered the competition, your response has been very heartening. We had over 3,000 entries in total.
‘The Fall of the Wall of Hill’
The assistant editorship of The Rialto is helping me let poems take over my flat. I recently finished teaching a reading group for The Poetry School…
Editor Development Programme: apply this week for the next stage
Calling all those who’d like to out their inner editor.
The Rialto/RSPB Poetry Competition 2013, Results
The Rialto and the RSPB are very pleased to announce the results of the 2013 Nature Poetry Competition, judged by Ruth Padel.
First Prize: ‘Kites’ by Colin Hughes
Second
E.D.P. – The Editor Development Programme
E.D.P – The Editor Development Programme
The Editor Development Programme is now live.
Blogs
On the voice and poetry
I like the idea of the voice being betwixt and between. Moving from the body out to the world.
Masha Zrabl
There’s a feeling when you see a stranger who resembles someone you once knew, of being thrown off kilter, caught between two people, one present before you and the other
Down at the White Horse, Feat. Bob the Barman
During my ‘poetry adventure’ in New York, I had a drink with a cool guy called Peter at The White Horse.
New York: A Little Poetry Adventure
I recently undertook a bit of a poetry adventure. It was across the pond, in a place called New York.
From The Editor
The Editor is back from two weeks holiday in Italy.
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.
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
On Bibliographies
There is nothing so tedious and wonderful as a list of books. I once attended an academic conference held at a boarding school run by monks.
No 69
The new The Rialto (No. 69) has gone to be printed.
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
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.