Oh, and we haven’t forgotten about first collections – we launched Dean Parkin’s The Swan Machine at last autumn’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, and published Matt Howard’s award winning Gall in 2018. We also run a regular poetry pamphlet competition which has become a fixture of how we discover new work. These have so far been by poets who we’ve asked to submit work. In 2005 we turned our energy to publishing pamphlets and began our Bridge Pamphlets list. However, every single one of the websites I listed is pretty damn good and all/most of the files are available for free.
With our new creed in mind, we duck into a phone box to change into our waterproofs and set out directly for the moor. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETSĪt the start of the new millennium The Rialto published a short run of first collections. The three websites I liked the most are, Carlo’s MIDI, and simply because of the sheer amount of files available. As we turn into Vatten we make a policy decision: wherever we can make a spontaneous, unmapped short-cut, we will wherever we can choose standing knee deep in a bog over standing on tarmac, we must. The Rialto has been called ‘Simply the best’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘A terrific magazine’ by Seamus Heaney. Most of the space is occupied by the best new poems we can find, all wrapped up in our famously vibrant beautiful covers. I admire the way this poem dances between the worlds of the medieval anchoress and the modern urban landscape ( I think this phone box is historically a bit. The magazine appears three times a year and each issue, with its spacious A4 pages, has fifty or so poems, an editorial and occasional, commissioned, prose pieces.
The founding editors, Michael among them, believed in a ‘Republic of Poetry’, an inclusive and diverse world of poetry, one that was open to experiment in form and content.
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