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Iota magazine

Just over a year ago Templar Poetry took on responsibility for
publishing Iota Magazine in partnership with an Editorial team lead
by Nigel McLoughlin at the University of Gloucestershire in
Cheltenham. Three issues each year are dedicated to poetry and a
fourth issue now publishes short fiction, prose and reviews. Last
spring we launched the first new issue, a double issue which
introduced a new format for the magazine with generous space for
several poems from each contributing author, along with interviews
with poets and a wide selection of reviews. A brief taste of the new
poetry issues is available here on their pages:

Poetry Issue 83/84: Spring 2009

Poetry Issue 85: Summer 2009

Fiction Issue 86: Winter 2009

Poetry Issue 87: Spring 2010

The Spring issue will be launched at the Awards Event for the 2009
Iota International Poetry Competition at the University of
Gloucestershire in Cheltenham.

The Judge, Tim Turnbull, will announce the winners and will read his
work along with the winning poets.

Iota 87 contains a timely overview of the poetry pamphlet and its
importance in contemporary poetry, written by Paul Maddern in the
new section of the magazine covering burning issues in poetry today.
You can preview the piece by clicking here.

Over the last twenty-two years many established poets have featured
in the pages of Iota, still more poets who are carving out excellent
reputations had early work published there. It has been a fertile
proving ground for many and offered the first opportunity for
publication to still more poets. We hope that mix will continue; we
hope that alongside the best poets writing today, the reader will find
many poets to watch out for in the future. We hope there will be
familiar names; but also international poets being introduced to a new
audience.

Iota welcomes submissions of new work. We apply an anonymous
selection process because we feel strongly that inclusion should be
based entirely on the poems rather than on the poet's reputation. We
don’t want to be swayed by names we recognise; we want to be
delighted by poems standing in the world alone. We also want each
poet to be represented by more than one poem, and we consider each
piece of work on its merits.

Each issue features the very best in exciting new poetry alongside
reviews of new collections and features on new and established
contemporary poets. We also plan to have articles on craft and poetics;
articles on creative process and articles where upcoming and
established voices are given the opportunity to ‘sound off’ about some
‘burning issue’ related to contemporary poetry.

We are conscious of the fact that Iota has been a respected poetry
journal and since its foundation in 1987 by David Holliday it has
consistently published a wide variety of contemporary poetry from
both UK and international voices and has always had a commitment to
giving new writers a chance. The new editorial team intend to uphold
the tradition and ethos of Iota.

Iota is now around one hundred or more pages,the same size as
Poetry Review and Ambit, and is designed and published by the
Templar Poetry design team. We welcome new subscriptions and you
can find out how to subscribe on our subscriptions page.