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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

"The speaker is confident about his authority to speak; he goes at his subject head-on. Secondly, the speaker is confident about the capacity of language to point with subtlety and discrimination, even when being implicit." Tony Hoagland on Oppen and others • Poetry

"What is it about Emily Dickinson that invites metaphors of war and violence?" Christopher Benfey • New York Times

"The idea is that this is the line of Follain, a loose notion of elective affinity rather than a school or tradition." Peter Sirr on a new anthology of French poetry • Poetry Ireland Review

'“In a poem, what’s real happens!,” he urged a German highschool teacher who’d written asking whether it was enough to skim his poems for the meaning.' John Felstiner on Paul Celan • Free Verse

"[P]oetry’s knowledge is not a stable one, but arises through the community of open questions." Richard Deming on Ann Lauterbach • Boston Review

". . . [I]t feels more like the occupation or inhabitation of a style, an exploration of its capacities as though miraculously from the inside, than it does like a commentary on it." Seamus Perry on parody • TLS

"Another thing I’ve always admired about Heaney’s work is how his book titles so often exert a refined pressure on the language, prompt us to a fresh awareness of what his subjects are, in title phrases that hover between literal and metaphorical meanings: Door into the Dark, Field Work, Seeing Things, The Sprit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle." Eamon Grennan • Irish Times

"The first two of these lines are fine, but the shredding into pieces of the heart, and especially the curlicue, are something of an embarrassment. And yet, in this same poem, Halkin beautifully conveys the lovely force of the Hebrew in the following lines..." Robert Alter on Yehuda Halevi • Jewish Review of Books

"Morgan was a writer who cared about a poem's visual impact as well as its sounds." Carol Rumens • Guardian

"It’s as if prose is a horizontal structure, built across a surface, while poetry is a catacomb." Alice Fulton in conversation with Alice Baumgartner • The New Yorker

"He uses a poetic line which sometimes seems complete and whole in its rhythm, and at others is stopped short, held, left hanging. It is as though to allow the rhythm its full completion would be untrue to the shape of the experience that gave rise to the poem." Colm Toibin on Seamus Heaney • Guardian

"Hill is a far edgier poet than any of the swaggering, finger-clicking non-entities who claim to be taking poetry to the people." Richard King on Geoffrey Hill • The Australian

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