New Walk is a high quality poetry and arts print magazine published in Leicester

Leicester

Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

, England

England

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, but with a national and international focus. It is edited by Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman is a poet resident in England.- Links :* * * - References :...

 and Nick Everett, with the fiction edited by Libby Peake. New Walk mainly publishes poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

, but also includes poetry book reviews, interviews with major poets, essays, fiction and artwork.

Representative contributors: Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald

-Career:Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England....

, J.M. Coetzee, Ian Parks

Ian Parks

-Biography:Described by Chiron Review as 'the finest love poet of his generation', Parks was born in 1959 in Mexborough, South Yorkshire. The son of a miner, Parks grew up during the declining years of the industry - something which was to have a profound effect on his later work...

, Alan Jenkins, William Logan

William Logan

William Logan may refer to:*William Edmond Logan, Canadian geologist*William Logan , U.S. Senator from Kentucky*William Logan , U.S. poet and critic*William Logan , Scottish author of Malabar Manual*William F...

, Alison Brackenbury

Alison Brackenbury

-Life:She studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire.Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Stand,-Works:* * * -Reviews:Singing in the Dark is Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection of poetry...

, Timothy Murphy

Timothy Murphy

Timothy Murphy was a sniper in the American Revolutionary War. At the Battle of Bemis Heights on October 7, 1777, Murphy is reputed to have shot and killed Sir Francis Clerke and General Simon Fraser. Murphy's life is the subject of John Brick's 1953 novel, The Rifleman.-Early life:Relatively few...

, Mark Ford

Mark Ford

-Life:He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond...

, Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...

, David Mason

David Mason

David Mason was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player. He played the flugelhorn for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's ninth symphony and the piccolo trumpet solo on The Beatles' song "Penny Lane"....

, Dawn Potter, Tom Pow, Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop is an English poet, academic and literary critic.-Life:Lindop was born in Liverpool and studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. After two years of postgraduate research at Wadham and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford, he moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he...

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