Younger Poets Feature: Update

The submissions doors are now closed and Flight Rialto U35 is underway. It looks to be a smooth one so far, with perhaps a little turbulence, but generally good weather is forecast. We’ve checked the cargo bay for stow-away over 40s and other potentially...
Younger Poets Feature

Younger Poets Feature

I’ve been asked by Michael Mackmin to organise a ‘ones to watch’ feature for The Rialto’s 25th anniversary edition — published in May and including poems from Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy and Tomaz Salamun, among many others. I have...
Helena Nelson

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. Her first full collection, Starlight on Water, followed in 2003 from Rialto Press and...