by Nick Stone | Jul 30, 2025 | Blogs
I woke this morning muddle-headed about dreams and trying to recall what grandiose scheme I had had about righting the world’s wrongs. That didn’t seem possible, so then I turned my mind, as one does, to the question of making a translation of that poem by St John of...
by Nick Stone | Jul 29, 2025 | News
Images from The Rialto event in the CCI (Cambridge Conservation Initiative) Attenborough Building on Monday July 7. A celebration of the 2024/2025 Nature and Place Poetry Competition: CCI are partners with us in this competition, as are the RSPB, Birdlife...
by Nick Stone | May 27, 2025 | Competitions, News
Nature and Place winners 2025 We have now received the results of the 2025 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Helen Mort and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Beryl’ – Rosamund Taylor2nd Prize of £500 – ‘crossing fields’...
by Nick Stone | Mar 3, 2025 | Blogs
The other Tuesday, it was a January Tuesday, I had no clients so decided to treat myself to a proper birding expedition (something I do with increasing irregularity now). I’d got my year list off to a pretty good start early in the month with a walk at Hickling where...
by Nick Stone | Aug 12, 2024 | News
The Rialto as an organisation has always reviewed its use of social media over our time on all the platforms we inhabit. Over the last two years the advisory board have become increasingly uncomfortable using Twitter/X. We have already pulled back from anything much...
by Nick Stone | Jun 3, 2024 | News
We have now received the results of the 2024 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Zaffar Kunial and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Fox’ – Marianne MacRae2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Extinction Submission’ – AV...
by Nick Stone | Apr 22, 2023 | News
We have now received the results of the 2023 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Ian McMillan and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Kharkiv Zoo’ – Anastasia Taylor-Lind2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Spoons’ – Jo Bratten3rd...
by Nick Stone | Nov 9, 2022 | Blogs
The Rialto and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature invites you to join us online on zoom, with Editor of issue R98, Edward Doegar, for a reading from The Rialto issue number 98. To celebrate the issue we are co-hosting an online reading that showcases the diverse...
by Nick Stone | Apr 26, 2022 | Blogs, Competitions
We have now received the results of the 2022 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Gillian Clarke and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Blame the Fox’ by Jane Lovell 2nd Prize of £500 – ‘Whales in the Forth’ by Cecilia Rose...
by Nick Stone | Apr 14, 2021 | Competitions, News
We have now received the results of the 2021 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Daljit Nagra and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘They say you sleep 1/3 of your life in the dark with animals’ by Simon Costello2nd...
by Nick Stone | Oct 6, 2020 | Competitions, News
REPORT FROM THE JUDGE, WILL HARRIS I feel uncomfortable with the idea of “judging” because it can suggest some kind of special objectivity and wisdom on the part of the judge. And my only qualification for this role is that I love poems, subjectively and with very...
by Nick Stone | Sep 4, 2020 | Blogs, Competitions
We are very pleased to announce that the Shortlisted Titles for the 2020 Rialto Pamphlet Competition are, in no particular order, For The Apocalypse Team, Trombone, Hello, Before After, Queerfella, Fridges, Shit Happens, The Sushi Chef’s Wife, The Presence of Absence,...
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