Issue 41 |March 2020|

Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales

Member of Forest Poets, Becky Kingsnorth

OTTER An otter appears from the skein of bubbles on the water’s surface  popping its head up from the shadow snag of fallen trees I’m surprised to…

LYING IN BED Early morning brings me to my senses Another day to survive the madness of me Can I lie here some more? It seems I’m flying…

Irish Poet Amy Barry

Simona Nastac’s first poetry book, “The Depressing Colour of Honey” won the Alexandru Mușina Prize “The King of the Morning” for poetry debuts.

Migrations  A boy in the darkness burning candles, shadows on the ceiling so playful so yellow, reads Crime and Punishment, follows furious light inside the sullen…

Gabi Reigh’s translations of original work by Mihai Eminescu, Lucian Blaga and Ioana Ileana Ștețco

Four poems by Franca Mancinelli one can play dead: arms spread, the backbone for a keel, nothing in the mind, motion like a memory of water. …

When Girls Grew Fists  & Boys Wore Make-Up   Stepping over the outline of sleeping baby skinheads scattered  under railway tunnels  glue sniffed on cycle tracks;   In a…

BACK TO THE GREENHOUSE I could even now go back there, pass winter on the southern coast, tend tomatoes in greenhouses so hot you dunk your vest then…

2 Poems from Roy Liran

Corina Moise Poenaru translates poetry by Irina-Roxana Georgescu

Miriam believes that poetry and prose are tools for storytelling that encourage unity. She has great faith in collaboration as a key to communication.

Sohail Ahmad Khan is Dean of Oriental and Islamic Learning Faculty at Lahore’s Government College.

Guido’s geographical and cultural roots lie in the Friuli region but he has the theoretical awareness of the astrophysicist,

Born in 1961, Maja Haderlap grew up in rural Eisenkappel-Vellach (called Želena Kapla-Bela in Slovene)

Indran Amirthanayagam writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole.

The Blue Nib are much saddened at the news of Kevin Griffin’s passing and our thoughts are with his friends and family.

Poetry by Audrey Molloy, recipient of the Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry, the Listowel Writers’ Week Award for Irish Poem of the Year and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.

Denise: What drew you to poetry in the first place, and when did you start writing? Peter: I started writing poetry in 1983 at a friend’s farmhouse…

Denise O’Hagan interviews the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, Antony Lawrence.