Editor Interview: Poetry London

Poetry, Reviews, Essays

The Poetry Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto, Poetry Magazine

Poetry: Terrance Hayes, Shane McCrae, Emily Berry, Anthony Anaxagorou, Tracy K. Smith, Richard Siken, Alice Notley, Jericho Brown, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Grace Nichols, Mark Ford, Fred D'Aguiar; Prose: Vidyan Ravinthiran, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Anthony Capildeo, Sandeep Parmar, Stephanie Sy-Quia, Ruth Padel, Glyn Maxwell, Don Paterson

An important aim for us is to foster emerging writers. On average, a third of the poetry pages is given to poets who have yet to publish a first collection. We review pamphlets and first collections in every issue, and we run an annual poetry competition.

Read previous issues to get a sense of the kind of work we publish.

Imaginative, bold, adventurous, unique, memorable.

A short biographical note in your your cover letter is sufficient. We welcome submissions from poets who are early in their career

We read every piece of work submitted.

Editing submissions, attending planning meetings, organising events, updating databases, collating author data

Yes, we nominate poems for the Forward Prize every year