Poetry magazines

Poetry News – the newspaper of The Poetry Society – is mailed free to all members of The Poetry Society and is a great way to keep in touch with the world of poetry. Poetry News offers coverage of poetry news worldwide, and in-depth interviews and features explore the work of leading poets and their different approaches to the art form.

Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is published triannually with an international reputation for excellent poems, features and reviews from Wales and beyond. Emerging from a rich bilingual literary culture, Poetry Wales explores the diverse perspectives of Welsh poetry and literature in English and its international relationships. Editor: Zoë Brigley Thompson.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

South is published twice a year and features previously unpublished poems written in English. Poems are chosen by a selection panel, which changes for each issue. South features a specially written profile of a well-published poet, accompanied by a generous selection of poems. Book reviews and information for subscribers also appear in each issue.