by Guest Blogger | Mar 14, 2014 | Blogs
I was one of the six readers commissioned last summer to sift and assess the anonymous entries for the Faber New Poets competition – our job was to each select ten or so manuscripts which would be finally judged by a panel at Faber. The winners have just been...
by Fiona | Feb 17, 2014 | Blogs
The Rialto arrived at the end of last week. It’s strange to open a poetry magazine whose contents you know, down to the last comma – have discussed and selected, and then proof-read down to the last comma. I hope there aren’t any mistakes. On starting to read...
by Guest Blogger | Feb 14, 2014 | Blogs
You can read the four prize-winning poems and judge Ruth Padel’s report in the Wet Winter issue of The Rialto, out now; order it here. And below, as promised, are the six Highly Commended entries, in alphabetical order. STARLINGS ...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 27, 2013 | Blogs
When I opened the first yellow cardboard folder full of poems, I had no idea what I’d find. That is still the case, though now I can make some guesses. I did have a couple of vague assumptions, probably derived from comments by competition judges and editors, notably...
by Fiona | Oct 21, 2013 | Blogs
The autumn issue has just arrived. This time it felt different: my name is on page 2, as one of the Assistant Editors (note the capitals), along with Abigail Parry. We have got this job for the next two issues, winter and spring, under The Rialto’s Editor Development...
by Michael Mackmin | Sep 25, 2013 | Blogs
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 Guest Blogger | Feb 25, 2013 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Michael Mackmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Blogs
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 Guest Blogger | Apr 12, 2012 | 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...
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