by Michael Mackmin | Jan 12, 2016 | Poems in The Rialto
The Seagull now eating my sandwich by Emily Wills computes a multimap of all the local take-outs behind his brassy glare. Bird-brained, above us all, he sat-navs through south-westerlies, tunnels low cloud, champions right of way over starling and rook. Inland, he...
by Michael Mackmin | Nov 4, 2015 | Poems in The Rialto
What you left out by Laura Scott The first time I heard it, its notes went through me like milk through water, clouding into my bones so I knew the end before it had even begun. I sat and listened as you told me the story of the old man and his three daughters, how...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 25, 2013 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
When I came to type up the poems I’d accepted for the ‘Summer’ Rialto (No. 78) I found I was several pages short of an issue. So I have had to do some concentrated reading to find more, excellent, poems. And at about the same time as I was doing this...
by Michael Mackmin | Jul 15, 2013 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
E.D.P – The Editor Development Programme The Editor Development Programme is now live. If you want to be considered for it you’ll have to make haste as the closing date for applications is at the end of this week. We have been talking about this programme...
by Michael Mackmin | May 3, 2013 | Events
Date – Saturday May 25th 2013 Guiding Principle Three poets are invited: One well-known poet plus two protégés. The invited poet invites two lesser known &/or unpublished poets (whose work the guest poet feels is unfairly little known or under-rated). All...
by Michael Mackmin | Oct 1, 2012 | News
The judges, Sir Andrew Motion and Mark Cocker, decided on the following winners for the Rialto/RSPB Nature Poetry Competition. They are; ‘East Sabino Sunrise Circle’ by Pat Winslow (First Prize) ‘Winter Apple’ by Gina Wilson (Second Prize)...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 28, 2012 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The results of the competition will be published on Monday, October 1st. The winners have already been notified. On the final day of judging Sir Andrew Motion and Mark Cocker made their selections from 100 poems by the poets listed below. Some entrants had more than...
by Michael Mackmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
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 is in the ability to learn and to be delighted. And here’s something that will help tune you...
by Michael Mackmin | Dec 16, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
I have managed to give myself a very sharp attack of bloggers’ block. I came back to a grey Stansted on a comfortable and efficient Ryanair flight at the end of August firmly of the opinion that I’d quickly jot down a ‘what I did on my summer...
by Michael Mackmin | Jun 14, 2011 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The Cley Little Festival of Poetry, in my experience, circles around the village of Cley but doesn’t settle there, ranging between Sheringham and Wiveton along the coast road. They very generously invite me to suggest themes, poets etc., from time to time and...
by Michael Mackmin | Apr 28, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
I was moved to write this piece after reading a Robert Penn article in this month’s Cycling Plus where he argues that poetic thinking and cycling are incompatible, and quotes Diane Ackerman: “When I go biking… the world is breaking someone else’s heart”. It’s a strong...
by Michael Mackmin | Apr 21, 2011 | Blogs, Staff and Guest blogs
This is the first of what will hopefully become an ongoing series of guest blogs featuring regularly on The Rialto website. Education in poetry During the day, when I’m not writing, you can find me running an antiquarian bookshop in North London, surrounded by...
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