by Guest Blogger | Jun 13, 2012 | Staff and Guest 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 Guest Blogger | Apr 12, 2012 | Staff and Guest 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...
by Guest Blogger | Jan 10, 2012 | Staff and Guest blogs
My partner writes (but does not draw) comics. This means I have been learning more about comics that I might otherwise have deemed necessary. The more I learn, the more interesting I find them, and the more I find which can be applied to poetry. Here are some thoughts...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 20, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
The nights draw in again and the winter equinox gets buried beneath the white noise of Argos adverts, flashing santa’s (in both senses), and the warblings of X-Factor winners dribbling out the radio like turkey-gravy down the chin of an elderly relative. The equinox...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 9, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
A weekend full of poems, poems on shop windows, in the free Poetry Paper, poems read and discussed by voices from all over the world. Voices presided over this year, it seemed, by Philip Larkin, probably polishing his glasses and adjusting his bicycle clips in...
by Guest Blogger | Aug 8, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
Penzance literary festival is unlike any other’ reads the welcoming and informative website http://penzance-literary-festival.org.uk It’s a community festival, started last year, and organised again by a small number of volunteers who have somehow succeeded in...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 4, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
Have you read any of Tom Warner’s work? You should. He’s an excellent poet. Which is why I was pleased but also a bit nervous to be working with him on a pilot project called Well Versed (run by Writers Centre Norwich and carried out by poets and teachers in schools...
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...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 6, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
Snowy Landscape at Eragny, with an apple tree, by Camille Pissaro, hangs in a Victorian wallpapered gallery in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Seeing it for the first time, I felt like when you open curtains on unsuspected snow. It’s late afternoon or mid...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 20, 2010 | Staff and Guest blogs
Brian Patten’s brilliant BBC radio essay on lost poets – and the one whose poems astonished me the most was Rosemary Tonks – made me think of the poets I like who are – not lost – but difficult to get hold of. In fact, getting hold of Rosemary Tonks’ two poetry...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 2, 2010 | Blogs, Staff and Guest blogs
I like the idea of the voice being betwixt and between. Moving from the body out to the world. Of belonging neither to the world of objects (not a bodily thing) nor to that dreadful (dead-full) world of text – where when we read, all we try to do is get what the text...
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