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Poetry magazines

Find inspiration from contemporary poems, and ideas of where to get your own poetry published in this list of current poetry magazines.

National Poetry Library membership entitles you to remotely access digital copies of current and back issues of Banipal, Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, PBS Bulletin, PN Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and Stand via Exact Editions.

Presence

Presence is a haiku magazine, specialising in publishing high quality haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun and related poetry. It appears 3 times per year. Each issue is typically 80-100 A5 pages, and contains articles on haiku practice and book reviews in addition to the poetry. Editor: Ian Storr.

Prole

Prole is a print poetry and prose magazine that promotes accessible literature of high quality. It aims to challenge, engage and entertain - but never exclude, putting the reader first. Editors: Brett Evans and Phil Robertson.

Prototype

Prototype is an annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between. Established to continue and develop the work begun by Test Centre, Prototype is committed to creating new possibilities in the publishing of fiction and poetry through a flexible, interdisciplinary approach. Editor: Jess Chandler.

Reach Poetry

Reach Poetry is a monthly magazine published by Indigo Dreams. Editor: Ronnie Goodyer.

The Rialto

Established in 1984, The Rialto is published three times a year and each issue, with its spacious A4 pages, has fifty or so poems, an editorial and occasional, commissioned, prose pieces. Editor: Michael Mackmin.

Salopeot

The Salopian Poetry Society was formed in 1976 and is based in the County of Shropshire. The Society exists to encourage lovers of poetry to become poets themselves, by publishing their work alongside poems by established poets, in their quarterly magazine 'Salopeot'. Editor: Roger Hoult.

The Seventh Quarry

The Seventh Quarry is a poetry magazine published since 2005 in Swansea, Wales, with an international perspective, which appears twice a year, in winter and summer. Editor: Peter Thabit Jones.

Shearsman

Shearsman is a biannual magazine that publishes a broad variety of poetry, with an inclination towards international modernism and the more radical kinds of poetry that appeared in the USA and the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Editor: Tony Frazer.

Shooter

Shooter launched in January 2015 with the goal of supporting emerging writers of literary fiction, creative non-fiction, narrative journalism and poetry. Though based in the UK, Shooter publishes work in English by writers from anywhere in the world. Editor: Melanie Sykes-White.

Snow lit rev

An occasional, small-run literary journal consisting largely of poetry, fiction and essays, also featuring artworks and photography. Editors: Anthony Barnett and Ian Brinton.

Sofia

Sofia regards poetry and theology as sister arts. It explores religion as a human creation and seeks to publish good poetry on any subject. Editor: Dinah Livingstone.

Stand

Stand has been a fixture on the British and world literary scene since 1952, when the first issue appeared in London. It moved to Leeds in 1960, then to Newcastle, and it is now edited from the School of English at the University of Leeds in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University in the USA.

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Tuesday, 12 noon – 6pm
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Monday, closed.

Saturday 2 May,  Saturday 9 May  – The Royal Festival Hall is closed for an event, but the library remains open  – access via the Royal Festival Hall Artists Entrance.
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