{"id":539,"date":"2010-04-02T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/?p=539"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:14:08","slug":"younger-poets-feature-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/2010\/04\/02\/younger-poets-feature-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Younger Poets Feature: Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poetry Looms<\/p><\/div>\n

The submissions doors are now closed and Flight Rialto U35 is underway. It looks to be a smooth one so far, with perhaps a little turbulence, but generally good weather is forecast. We’ve checked the cargo bay for stow-away over 40s and other potentially explosive compounds, and … OK, there’s only so far you can stretch a metaphor before it threatens to snap …<\/p>\n

So, the little experiment feature that Michael and I planned for the 25th anniversary has turned into a big experiment. We’ve had approximately 300 submissions of between 1 and 7, sometimes 8, poems (but most have been well-behaved and stuck to the original requested 3-5) and all this is in 7 days. This now leaves the slightly huge task of reading and selecting from between 800-1200+ poems in two or so weeks.<\/p>\n

Oops. That is a lot of poetry.<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s so much (and so much of it seems to be of a pretty decent quality so far, on my initial Beirut-soundtracked read-throughs) that we’re thinking of extending it over more than one issue and perhaps using it as the start of other regular ‘focus features’; different ages groups, genres, or themes might be explored, for example, and different submission methods. We’re thinking about it. If you have any ideas, do get in touch.<\/p>\n

One thing we seem to have proved is that there is — if you didn’t know already — a lot of poetry being written out there by younger people and that The Rialto continues to be a place these poets want to be seen. What also appears certain is that if you want to give yourself far more work to do than is healthy over a Bank Holiday weekend then you should send out an open call for poetry submissions via email, Twitter and Facebook, and then ruefully watch enthusiasm melt your inbox.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I said I’d do it, so I will … it’s on with the show … excuse me, I have poetry to read … (and thanks to all those who helped spread the word through recommendations, reposts, tweets, and blogs)<\/p>\n

[note<\/strong>: I am likely to be listening to a lot of Beirut while editing this feature, including the introduction. If any of you consider their East-European-folk-inspired melancholy potentially harmful to an adequate reading of your work, speak now or forever hold your peace. I am happy to consider suggestions of alternatives.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetry Looms<\/p><\/div>\n

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