On ‘There is so much longing at the edges of this room’ by Rachael Davey
Careful with that door. Don’t slam – you might trap a little lurker. They slip in quiet, just off the edge of vision, fold their powdery wings and wait. Lovers of thresholds. Watching. Wanting to drink...
View ArticlePoetry competition event cancellation
Due to to a combination of factors out of our control, we are sorry to say we can’t hold the Nature and Place Competition event as planned this year. Our intention is to invite this year’s winners to...
View ArticleNature and Place winners 2026 announced
We have now received the results of the 2026 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Mona Arshi and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Epithalamion with...
View ArticleMidwinter: Part 2
THE RIALTO MIDWINTER NEWSLETTER: PART 2 An error. We are, of course, publishing three new pamphlets. The one I forgot to mention in Part 1 of the Newsletter is John Whale’s, Wayward Observations. As to...
View ArticleMidwinter: Part 1
THE RIALTO MIDWINTER NEWSLETTER: PART 1 Points to note: R103 is currently being printed R103 will be mailed out first week of January R104 Discussion of delays and plans for the future Subscriptions...
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I woke this morning muddle-headed about dreams and trying to recall what grandiose scheme I had had about righting the world’s wrongs. That didn’t seem possible, so then I turned my mind, as one does,...
View ArticleThe Rialto Poetry event in the CCI
Images from The Rialto event in the CCI (Cambridge Conservation Initiative) Attenborough Building on Monday July 7. A celebration of the 2024/2025 Nature and Place Poetry Competition: CCI are partners...
View ArticleNature and Place winners 2025 announced
Nature and Place winners 2025 We have now received the results of the 2025 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Helen Mort and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of...
View ArticleThe other Tuesday
The other Tuesday, it was a January Tuesday, I had no clients so decided to treat myself to a proper birding expedition (something I do with increasing irregularity now). I’d got my year list off to a...
View ArticleRialto 102: Esther Morgan Thoughts on ‘Midsummer’
MIDSUMMER my boyfriend calls me a clock-watching fuck what can I say, I learn to love my jailers he comes over, we eat: fries, chicken, paratha drink cokes, too tired to mark the day besides living...
View ArticleWithdrawal from Twitter/X
The Rialto as an organisation has always reviewed its use of social media over our time on all the platforms we inhabit. Over the last two years the advisory board have become increasingly...
View ArticleNature and Place 2024 winners announced
We have now received the results of the 2024 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Zaffar Kunial and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Fox’ – Marianne...
View ArticleMisreading the dream of the rood – sheffield, 1 a.m.
It seemed like a good day to write about this. MISREADING THE DREAM OF THE ROOD – SHEFFIELD, 1 A.M. Bearn: born in a barn, a bairn, a cry in the night, an almost inaudible moan on the wind. Leaking...
View ArticleNature and Place: A Personal Statement
I was told that my first words, lisped in the early 1940s, were ‘flowers’ and ‘airplanes’. So here was Nature. And the place? A new build (finished in 1938) of small, pebble-dashed, semis and detacheds...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers
Q. How do I find out what sort of poems The Rialto publishes? So I can select from my poems ones that they’ll like. A. The answer to that used to be simply buy the magazine and read it. However recent...
View ArticleClose Reading
From time to time, when I’m reading for The Rialto, I come across poems that I really need to write about. Usually my long running wrestle with procrastination gets in the way, but when I wrote the...
View ArticleNature and Place 2023 winners announced
We have now received the results of the 2023 Nature and Place Poetry Competition back from Ian McMillan and are delighted to announce that the winners are: 1st Prize of £1000 – ‘Kharkiv Zoo’ –...
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A reading from The Rialto issue 98
The Rialto and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature invites you to join us online on zoom, with Editor of issue R98, Edward Doegar, for a reading from The Rialto issue number 98. To celebrate the issue...
View ArticleMachine poems
‘…when I write about being a cyborg, I challenge reality’ —The Cyborg Jillian Weise, ‘How a Cyborg Challenges Reality’ (The New York Times) ‘Every sexuality has a knowledge and technology and every new...
View ArticleCrow drop
A radio show I sometimes tune into has a long-running feature where listeners write in about objects that have fallen on them from out of the sky – a slice of white bread, an unopened Mars Bar, jar...
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