Guest Blog: On Tŷ Newydd – Breda Wall Ryan

Guest Blog: On Tŷ Newydd – Breda Wall Ryan

by | Jan 20, 2017 | Blogs

‘Our latest blog is by Breda Wall Ryan who was a prize winner in the 2013 Nature Poetry competition. Breda writes of her experience on the week-long course generously donated by Tŷ Newydd’. Naturally I was thrilled when my poem ‘The Inkling’ was awarded third place in...
Nature and Place

Nature and Place

by | Dec 20, 2016 | Blogs

We have had a few anxious emails asking what exactly we are looking for in entries for this competition, (apart, of course, from poems that reach out and intoxicate the reader). I’m going to try to answer this, but unfortunately, for those of you who like clear...
Kate Wakeling on Writing

Kate Wakeling on Writing

by | Jun 29, 2016 | Blogs

It’s taken me ages to find my way with writing, to feel that I was allowed, internally, to get on with it. From there, it’s been a brilliant and slightly terrifying experience to put a first pamphlet together, and I’ve maybe not yet quite caught up with the idea of it...
What are they looking for?

What are they looking for?

by | May 21, 2016 | Blogs

Shall I let you into a secret? Despite writing poetry seriously since 2010, despite my MA in Creative Writing and despite running a poetry magazine since 2012, I often think I have no idea what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s true. The nagging suspicion that I’m winging it...
The Tempest at the Hippodrome

The Tempest at the Hippodrome

by | May 16, 2016 | Blogs

If you can get to Great Yarmouth this week please do so and go to the Hippodrome. They’ve got the most astonishing production of The Tempest that I’ve ever seen. The Hippodome is an old indoor circus space, it’s a bit like being inside a work by...
Laura Scott goes to Greece

Laura Scott goes to Greece

by | Sep 14, 2015 | Blogs

My Rialto pamphlet won the Michael Marks prize, and part of the prize is that you get to go to Greece for two weeks to be the poet in residence for Harvard University’s Hellenic summer school. I think if someone were to ask me what was the best single thing about this...
‘Lessons from Press Gang and other submissions’

‘Lessons from Press Gang and other submissions’

by | May 13, 2015 | Blogs

Rishi Dastidar and I are working closely with The Rialto editor Michael Mackmin on a programme designed to teach us about the process and philosophy of poetry editing. Following the publication of The Rialto’s 81st issue, I met up online with Rishi to discuss how...
The Cab Rank Principle

The Cab Rank Principle

by | Apr 2, 2015 | Blogs

I’ve been thinking about the law over the last couple of weeks. Not that I’m in any trouble I hasten to add – apart from the usual one that I’m sure some of you have also been quizzed on by other members of the family: “Yes this poeting is all well and good, but when...
What really happens on a Rialto editing day

What really happens on a Rialto editing day

by | Feb 20, 2015 | Blogs

Holly Hopkins and I, your editorial developees, have been asked to shed some light upon what we actually get up to when attending an editorial meeting of The Rialto. Herewith, a joint diary of a recent trip to Norwich, where selection of some poems took place. NB:...
‘Hey, have you had your hair cut?’

‘Hey, have you had your hair cut?’

by | Jan 13, 2015 | Blogs

We’ve had the decorators in at home for the last few weeks. Nothing major – a few licks of paint here and there, a new light switch or two; the hey, have you had your hair cut? level of change. But what I found most surprising was my reaction of getting in of an...