Issue 41 |March 2020|

Poet and Street Musician

Poetry inspired by the Melbourne Estonian community

Australian born poet, now teaching in New Zealand.

Michael's debut collection will be published in late 2020 by Melbourne Poets Union.

Author of 'Kosovo poems of Beyond the Blackbird Field'

Joint winner of the Queensland Poetry Festival Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award in 2019

Poet, novelist and lecturer, Tony DeLorger

Fotoula Reynolds second book, Silhouettes, was published in 2019.

professor of theoretical physics, Anna Lind

Linda Collins was shortlisted for the Hachette Australia Trans-Tasman mentorship (2018) and long-listed for New Zealand's national flash fiction award the same year.

Robert Verdon, a prize winner in the 2012 W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize.

The author of The Leviathan's Apprentice 2015, Walking Through Fences 2018, and Unstill Mosaics 2019.

WE WAVED GOODBYE TO VENICE(AND OTHER PLACES TOO) We waved goodbye to Venice, as she slipped under the waves, a thousand plus years of history,...

Gareth Jenkins full length collection of poetry, Recipes for the Disaster, was published in 2019 by Five Islands Press.

MPU International Poetry Prize; Meniscus Best Small Fiction; Fish Memoir Prize; Fish Short Story Prize

Emerging Poet, Sarah Jane Justice

Co-Editor of Messages from the Embers, Julia Kaylock

Nicola Harrison is the critically acclaimed author of: The Wordsmith’s Guide.

Dorset poet, Lesley Burt

Leonie Charlton’s travel memoir will be published by Sandstone Press in 2020.

Greystones poet, Deirdre McKernan Crosby

Poet and writing coach Anne Tannam

Roger McGough said ‘Chris consistently hits the right note’

Attracta Fahy was the October winner in Irish Times; New Irish Writing 2019.

Jean Taylor’s pamphlet 'Deliberate Sunlight' was published by Black Agnes Press in 2019.

Rebellion You pushed me through a closed door once in a flurry to get all done that had to be done. Then, you pushed a comb through my...

A SPELL IN THE ASYLUM Dear departed Mrs Latta mists over as I wave, ghost-flesh melted into nothing, the only almost-mother in my earthly world. Arm in...

Lynn Valentine has won and been placed in competitions including Glasgow Women’s Library Dragon’s Pen Award.

Listed as one of the top ten contemporary poets you should be reading.

Baggage In the square   is a giant tree  hung with lights. Through the branches a blood moon  has come  and gone, and now  a chain smoking  player rasps  a wonderful song. The man next to...

ON SEEING SORLEY MACLEAN AT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY His words tread the polished wood, stroke the soft Gaelic of my printed page. Love poems in an old man’s...

Poet and playwright, Angus Strachan won the International James Joyce Award for dramatic monologue

David Ishaya Osu is the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.

Bob Beagrie is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Teesside University.

Sarah Davies has been writing from childhood, with gaps for life stuff.

Anne McDonald is a creative writing teacher.

Ceinwen Haydon’s first chapbook was published in July 2019: 'Cerddi Bach' [Little Poems], Hedgehog Press. 

Returning to The Blue Nib, Matthew James Friday.