About Acumen
Acumen: n. the ability to judge well; insight.
Acumen is a literary journal that places an emphasis on poetry. For almost 25 years the magazine has been edited by Patricia Oxley, herself a thoroughly devout reader of poetry. Next year will be Acumen's 25th aniversary, so look out for interesting happenings on the horizon!
Acumen publishes a varied and impressive list of poets and critics. The magazine is also known to be on the lookout for high-quality work by new and unknown talent of all ages.
Published three times a year (January, May and September) in A5 perfect bound, with at least 120 pages per issue, the magazine contains approximately 50 new poems (including translations), reviews, poetry comment, and reader feedback. The critical articles aim to be well-written and readable, and are designed to set the reader thinking and thereby promote discussion within the correspondence columns of the magazine.
“Acumen mixes poems and prose by celebrated and new writers who have something to say and say it well.” – Dannie Abse
“I consider Acumen to be educationally essential.” – Abi Hughes-Edwards (The New Writer)
“Acumen deserves to be read for its first hand experience of poetry. The work it does is the opposite of academic and therefore valuable.” – Hugo Williams (winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 1999)
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