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Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher.
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Howdy. Please excuse the silence. R103 is on its way, currently at the printers. So it should be with you just after Christmas. It is we think worth the wait.
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It’s that time again. More info on the website. Entry is open.
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Thinking of Happiness Etc., the Michael Laskey/Jack Laskey celebration of Michael’s poetry (as well as his 80 + years on the planet) is taking place this week at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on Saturday (13th at 7.30) and Sunday (14th at 2.30).
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The Poetry Business
5 months ago
Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. 🏆 Judges:
@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social
&
@hollyhopkins.bsky.social
OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER Deadline 2 November 2025 Find out more:
poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
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Chrissy Williams
5 months ago
Waking up to being lost - I'm so grateful to Michael Mackmin for thinking about about my poem for
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
6 months ago
I wrote about my research into ‘the Norwich sonnet’, a neglected term which could one day challenge Shakespeare’s dominance of the form
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The Norwich Sonnet
How one local poet is challenging Shakespeare
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Magma Poetry
6 months ago
Really looking forward to this TOMORROW EVENING! Join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 - The Ownership Issue - Wed 16th July 7pm. An eclectic evening of readers includes Martyn Crucefix, Jan Heritage, D A Prince, Peter Daniels, Keith Jarrett, Sascha Akhtar, and Paul Fenn.
bit.ly/4lhG0q1
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Magma 92: The Ownership Issue Launch Party
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 at The Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
https://bit.ly/4lhG0q1
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Nine Arches Press
6 months ago
ONE WEEK AWAY Sign up to celebrate these 3 glorious books, all out now📚 Triple Online Launch with Erica Hesketh,
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
&
@julwe1.bsky.social
Tues 22 July 7pm BST Pay What You Can 🎥 Recording link sent in case you can't join us live.
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Phil Hyde
6 months ago
Enjoyed the online
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
celebration for the winners of the Nature and Place competition hosted by
@helenmort.bsky.social
– congrats to
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
for being in the top three.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
6 months ago
A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline 1 August. Please RT!
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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The Birch Family Scholarship
University of East Anglia
https://www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/scholarships/the-birch-family-scholarship
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Julia
6 months ago
Looking forward to this
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event 👇
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Victoria Spires
6 months ago
Hello
#poetrycommunity
, a wee reminder that I'm reading at this
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
event in Cambridge on Monday 7th July. You can come see me and the other prize winners and Helen Mort!! in person, or join online ☺️
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Come and join us and
@helenmort.bsky.social
for our Nature & Place Poetry reading.
www.cambridgeconservation.org/event/the-ri...
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Victoria Spires
7 months ago
A little good news, my first placing higher than a commended 🥳 Big thanks to
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
and
@helenmort.bsky.social
and big congratulations to all the winners, commended and longlisted poets ☺️
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Finola Cahill
7 months ago
Delighted to be longlisted and so thrilled for winner,
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
!! 🎉🎉
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Lisa Kelly
7 months ago
Congratulations to winners and highly commended poets. Super happy to have two poems on the longlist, 'Figgy Sestina' and 'The Zipless Fuck' !
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Rishi Dastidar
7 months ago
Results from this year's
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Nature and Place Competition:
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...
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Nature and Place winners 2025 announced | The Rialto - the poetry magazine to read
https://www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/05/27/nature-and-place-winners-2025-announced/
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Martina Dalton
7 months ago
Huge congratulations to all the winners and highly commended poets! 💫💫 Delighted to to have a poem on the longlist! ✨✨
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James Mcconachie
7 months ago
Nice to see some familiar names here. Congratulations to one and all👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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The Four Faced Liar
7 months ago
Congratulations to our Issue 3 contributor
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
on winning first prize in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Poetry and Place competition
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Announcement time. Congrats to all, and thanks to everyone who entered.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...
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Our Submittable for 103 is now open, please send us your best, max 6 in one submission. Please also have a look at a magazine to gain a flavour of what we tend to publish. Website is here.
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The Rialto - the poetry magazine to read | Award winning poetry publisher
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Our Submittable for 103 is now open, please send us your best, max 6 in one submission. Please also have a look at a magazine to gain a flavour of what we tend to publish. Website is here.
www.therialto.co.uk
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Ink Sweat & Tears are here. Give them a follow, go on.
@inksweatandtears.co.uk
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Competition closes on 1st April. Final call from here.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...
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Competition closes on 1st April. Final call from here.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...
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One week to go… 🦆
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
10 months ago
We have now raised £6,474. Here’s a video poem of Cage originally published in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock...
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Only two weeks to go on the Poetry Competition. Get your entries in as soon as you can.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...
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Only two weeks to go on the Poetry Competition. Get your entries in as soon as you can.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...
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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜
11 months ago
Here is Michael Mackmin’s commentary on my poem ‘Ode to a Cornish Hedge’, the last poem in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
current issue 102. You can read the poem in the mag, or in Beast, my next collection, which will be published by
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
in just 2 months
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Hannah Linden
10 months ago
Well what a wonderful surprise...my poem in the
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
has been nominated for The Forward Prize! Thanks so much Michael Mackmin! Made my day/year!
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Rishi Dastidar
11 months ago
Latest
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
newsletter from Michael:
mailchi.mp/therialto/th...
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THE RIALTO NEWSLETTER, FEBRUARY 2025
https://mailchi.mp/therialto/the-rialto-newsletter-may-9251678?fbclid=IwY2xjawIihbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHT3xhTwlCnGAh3nIwEncrTayhacLtOeLLGy6Aq9_NKW2XG7nj7nEgJRTjQ_aem_qC8j2wbc0wYsgKnZTl49Ww
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Kim Moore
11 months ago
Stunning poem
@poetbex.bsky.social
published in the wonderful
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
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Taylor Strickland
11 months ago
Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time. Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.
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Bex Hainsworth
11 months ago
My poem '55' is in the latest issue of
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
!
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Rialto 102: blog from Esther Morgan Thoughts on ‘MIDSUMMER’ by Iona Carmine Roisin.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...
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Elizabeth Osmond
11 months ago
I adored this tragic poem from
@poetbex.bsky.social
in the current
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Jo Bratten
11 months ago
Pages 36-37 of the new
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
are especially pleasing - poems by Matthew Caley and
@drlauravarnam.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Osmond
12 months ago
Loving this from
@hannahl1n.bsky.social
in the current issue of
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
12 months ago
Here's another poem of mine published in the latest issue of
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
#poetry
#poet
#poem
buy the issue here:
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/shop/
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Lydia Kennaway
12 months ago
Looking forward to Michael Schmidt’s ‘Working with Whitman’ digital workshop for
@poetrybusiness.bsky.social
on the 21st. This poem has a timely epigraph and appeared in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
and
#AHistoryofWalking
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Alice White
12 months ago
Thank you for including me in this beautiful issue
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With sorrow we mark the death of the great Irish poet Michael Longley. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, the most recent, Ash Keys, on his 85th birthday. He lived in Belfast and I like his description of himself as a ‘sentimental disbeliever’.
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R102 is out now. Free UK delivery. Still only £9 per issue. Order one here, go on, dare you.
www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...
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Jane Thomas
12 months ago
Enjoying first
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
and daff of the season - great sequence from
@lorrainemariner.bsky.social
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Jane Burn
12 months ago
I am so very happy, over the moon happy, to have two poems in the latest issue of this magazine, which I have loved for years - thank you
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
12 months ago
One of my poems published in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
this week. 🥰🥰🥰
#poetry
#poet
#poem
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
12 months ago
Cage, a poem of mine published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
last week. cc
@dalebooton.bsky.social
#poetry
#poems
#poet
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