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''New Walk'' was a high quality poetry and arts print magazine published at
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, England, but with a national and international focus. The magazine was established in 2010 and closed in 2017. It was edited by Rory Waterman and Nick Everett, with the fiction edited by Libby Peake. ''New Walk'' mainly published
poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
, but also included poetry book reviews, interviews with major poets, essays, fiction and artwork. Contributors to the magazine included:
Alice Oswald Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald (née Keen; born 31 August 1966) is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her work won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. In September 2017, she was named as BBC Radio 4's second ...
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J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...
, Ian Parks, Alan Jenkins, William Logan, Alison Brackenbury, Timothy Murphy, Mark Ford,
Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and a ...
, David Mason, Dawn Potter,
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Grevel Lindop Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life Lindop was born in Liverpool to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at Liverpool College, then W ...
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New Walk Editions

From 2017 onwards, after the closure of the magazine, Waterman and Everett published New Walk Editions: a series of "high-end poetry pamphlets", including both new and established poets. There were four pamphlets a year, two in spring and two in autumn.


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''New Walk'' information

''New Walk'' magazine website
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