by Guest Blogger | Feb 8, 2017 | Poems in The Rialto
[See end of post for image credit] To David Foster Wallace by Ben Wilkinson Since I was old enough to know myself I’ve been trying to figure it out – the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing, like half the time I’d chuck it all in; throw...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 1, 2016 | Poems in The Rialto
FIGHT SONG by Paula Bohince August 2014 A crisis on a monitor, and there’s this football field, white chalk formalizing grass, a spongy black track where I walk off my no-baby weight. A deadline has passed, so a journalist will leave this world violently as I go...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 25, 2013 | Staff and Guest blogs
There’s no poetry in money, and no money in poetry, yet I still enter the odd competition. In doing so, I’m not seriously seeking to disprove this fundamental law of the known universe, but merely hoping to draw a small spotlight toward a poem that may have something...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 3, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
I swam in the sea at Dunwich this morning, conscious as ever of the old lost city below me. Looking back at the tufted crumbling cliffs and then facing out to the hazy horizon, where the grey-gold water met the blue-grey sky, I thought about this recurring dream I...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 20, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
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. It’s near a haunted windmill that’s lost its top. It’s a place where we put raspberry sauce on our ice cream, but we...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 13, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
You may like to treat yourself to a quick look at this, from the Waveney and Blyth Arts website: “This is Waveney & Blyth Arts first commission to create new work that conjures up the spirit of these unique river valleys. Having successfully raised money...
by Guest Blogger | Apr 12, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
In 2009 I attended a seminar on ‘Pattern Completion’ at Gimpel Fils gallery in London. During the seminar, Dr Hugo Spiers, a neuroscientist at UCL, demonstrated how memory works with a marble game for children. He set off several marbles at the same time around a...
by Guest Blogger | Jan 10, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
My partner writes (but does not draw) comics. This means I have been learning more about comics that I might otherwise have deemed necessary. The more I learn, the more interesting I find them, and the more I find which can be applied to poetry. Here are some thoughts...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 20, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
The nights draw in again and the winter equinox gets buried beneath the white noise of Argos adverts, flashing santa’s (in both senses), and the warblings of X-Factor winners dribbling out the radio like turkey-gravy down the chin of an elderly relative. The equinox...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 9, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
A weekend full of poems, poems on shop windows, in the free Poetry Paper, poems read and discussed by voices from all over the world. Voices presided over this year, it seemed, by Philip Larkin, probably polishing his glasses and adjusting his bicycle clips in...
by Guest Blogger | Aug 8, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
Penzance literary festival is unlike any other’ reads the welcoming and informative website http://penzance-literary-festival.org.uk It’s a community festival, started last year, and organised again by a small number of volunteers who have somehow succeeded in...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 4, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
Have you read any of Tom Warner’s work? You should. He’s an excellent poet. Which is why I was pleased but also a bit nervous to be working with him on a pilot project called Well Versed (run by Writers Centre Norwich and carried out by poets and teachers in schools...
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