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Magazines

Poetry Magazines, from The Poetry Library
an online, full-text archive of lots of poetry magazines, including Oxford Poetry

Ambit
completely unsolicited poetry, short fiction, art and reviews

Arete
a tri-quarterly based in Oxford featuring fiction, poetry, prose, reportage and views from literary heavyweights

Granta
very well established; published four times a year

The London Magazine
arts and literature review since 1732

Magma
dedicated poetry magazine with a different editor each issue

Mslexia
for women who write

The North
high quality independent magazine

Poetry London
a leading international magazine publishing new and acclaimed poets

Poetry Wales
an essential poetry quarterly for over 40 years

The Rialto
one of Britain's leading poetry magazines; designed to promote 'the republic of poetry'

Contemporary Poetry Review
ezine of poetry criticism

Poetry Orgs and Other Sites

Tower Poetry
poetry publications, workshops and prizes

Web del Sol
a literary hub

PoetCasting
features published, performance, emerging and established poets in the UK reading their own work online and out loud.

Poetry Archive
a collection of contemporary and historic recordings of poets reciting their poetry, the result of a collaboration between Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and record producer Richard Carrington. Engaging and informative, with resources for teachers, children and those new to poetry

The Poetry House
is a website in which you can explore the many rooms of a poetry house, some devoted to the poetry of a particular era, others to geographical areas. Includes articles discussing contemporary poets and their works. Based at St Andrew's University

The Poetry Library
holds the most comprehensive and accessible collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain. Events include readings and workshops. The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London.

Poetry Press

"Which Poetry Editor Are You? (The following is intended for entertainment purposes only and should not be used to ascertain one’s eligibility for grants.)" Lucy Ives • Poetry

"Peters acknowledges their continuing bond but finds what she sees as Zukofsky’s sexism and superciliousness deplorable." Majorie Perloff on Lorine Niedecker • TLS

"After all, considering that we must live either in the country or in the town, the person who does not notice one or the other is more eccentric than the person who does." Virginia Woolf on Edward Thomas (1917) • TLS

"Two millennia ago, the farmer-poet Horace called his plutocratic patron – and friend - Maecenas "the shield and glory of my life". Today's Maecenases need, at least, dialogue not disdain." Boyd Tomkin • Independent

"The mythic vision of engaging Apollo in a divine music-making contest devolves into notes that would seem more appropriate for a toilet-paper-roll blowgun." Tom Sleigh • Blackbird

"Warren took it upon himself to write a thirty-page handout on metrics and imagery, which was first used in the spring semester of 1935. A year later, the handout had been expanded to include fiction, drama, and prose—and was printed by LSU with the title, An Approach to Literature. (The scholarly old-guard on campus, unimpressed by the book, began calling it 'The Reproach to Literature.')" Garrick Davis • Contemporary Poetry Review

"If I saw all of these movies, I asked myself, how did I ever find the time to sleep, eat, read books, teach students, raise a family and write hundreds of poems?" Charles Simic • NYRB

"The poetry of ease (should such a thing exist) would be poetry that does not speak of that state as one speaks of an unknown country we might wish one day to visit—Cockaigne, Bensalem, Innisfree—but rather a poetry that expresses ease as we express our native air: stirring it with our living presence, not exhausting it with our efforts." Oren Izenberg • Nonsite

"However, we must settle down, here at the back of the class, and grant that The Complete Poems is an almost fanatically painstaking and altogether admirable piece of work." John Banville • Guardian

"Frivolous and serious, mischievous and magisterial, poets play both sides of the coin of freedom — heads they study (“the scholar’s art,” Wallace Stevens called poetry), tails they frisk. If freedom and poetry seem paradoxical, freedom and poets are all but identical." Ange Mlinko on Susan Stewart • LARB (scroll down)

"His translation frequently makes the verbal imperatives of an epic style an aid to vividness." Jeremy Noel-Tod on Simon Armitage • Telegraph

"He was often reduced to penury, and the humiliation of calling on his muses to plea for money in verse." Charles Isherwood on Ben Jonson • NYT

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