On ‘Lady Stardust’

On ‘Lady Stardust’

by | May 24, 2017 | Staff and Guest blogs

When commissioning pieces for the original Bowieoke event, I decided to give the other poets their pick of Bowie albums to write on, and to choose my own from among those left. It came as a welcome surprise that 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the...
Guest Blog: On Tŷ Newydd – Breda Wall Ryan

Guest Blog: On Tŷ Newydd – Breda Wall Ryan

by | Jan 20, 2017 | Staff and Guest 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...
What are they looking for?

What are they looking for?

by | May 21, 2016 | Staff and Guest 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...
Laura Scott goes to Greece

Laura Scott goes to Greece

by | Sep 14, 2015 | Staff and Guest 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...
The Cab Rank Principle

The Cab Rank Principle

by | Apr 2, 2015 | Staff and Guest 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 | Staff and Guest 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:...
‘The Fall of the Wall of Hill’

‘The Fall of the Wall of Hill’

by | Feb 15, 2015 | Staff and Guest blogs

The assistant editorship of The Rialto is helping me let poems take over my flat. I recently finished teaching a reading group for The Poetry School so my Wall Of Hill (entirety of Mercian Hymns photocopied and arranged on my bedroom wall so I could scribble notes)...
‘Hey, have you had your hair cut?’

‘Hey, have you had your hair cut?’

by | Jan 13, 2015 | Staff and Guest 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...