Poetry Life and Times
Poetry Life and Times is a literary magazine based in England that has been engaged in the promotion of poets and poetry since its establishment in 1998. The magazine has featured several poets and their translations from Greek, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish, as well as English.
Background
The magazine was established by Sara Russell in 1998, in the form of a monthly bulletin of poets' news. Its editorship was transferred in April 2006 to Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Perez Arrospide, who further expanded the magazine to poets whose native language was not English. The shift was also marked by a trend towards a more critical and politically minded collective voice. The magazine is being hosted by poet David Michael Jackson.An early contributor was Richard Vallance, whose Vallance Review series was published in the magazine since 2001. Dedicated to critical reviews on sonneteers, historical and contemporary, as well as on the evolution of the sonnet, this series examines different structures of classical poetry, in both form and idiom. During a transitional period in 2007, PLT teamed up with Creative Thinkers International to maintain its vast archive of photographs online.