From the Editor – Issue 65

by | Mar 23, 2010 | Blogs, Mike Mackmin's Blog

Hearts and other organs I remember a museum of glass bottles, shelf after shelf rising to the ceiling. Were the skylights domed? Does it matter? The light was granite-flecked, dimly illuminating a Victorian freak-show of medical specimens – speckled, puckered,...

From the Editor – Issue 66

by | Mar 23, 2010 | Mike Mackmin's Blog

Two poems in Magma and four in this issue of The Rialto is perhaps not enough evidence to warrant announcing a startling new poet. Nevertheless Nadia Al Fazil Kareem’s work is fresh and assured and has a voice of marvellous variety ranging from rage to laughter to...