The Blue Nib Literary Magazine

Managing editor of the publishing house, Oversteps Books, Alwyn's eleven books include poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

A moment captured, by Bristolian poet William Thompson

Vickerman, whose stories, articles and poems have appeared in The Guardian, and the Times Educational Supplement, has published five collections of poetry.

Vona Groarke's awards include the Brendan Behan Memorial Prize, the Hennessy Award, the Michael Hartnett Award, and the Strokestown International Poetry Award.

Butler's awards for poetry include the Féile Filíochta, Brendan Kennelly, Ted McNulty, Maria Edgeworth, Baileborough, Poetry Ireland/Trocaire and Phizfest prizes.

Elegant and well-crafted poems from one of Scotland's foremost writers, Dilys Rose.

The earthly and the mythic are in constant interplay in these poems by Mary Madec.

Duffy’s vibrant poetry allows us to travel through a whole spectrum of colour, whilst standing still.

Well versed in Western literature, a fact borne out in the quality and flexibility of his style, O’Rourke’s poems evoke and challenge a millenia old tradition.

Quinn is a flawless writer. She draws on the materials life has given her to create a pared but visionary poetry.