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Anne Ballard, Poetry.
Anne Ballard won first prize in the Poetry on the Lake Competition 2015 and 2018.
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‘Kintyre’ a poem by Carol McKay
Carol McKay won the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2010
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A Poem by A C Clarke
A.C. Clarke's A Troubling Woman (Oversteps Books), came out in 2017
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2 New Poems by Janice Dempsey
Janice is co-owner and editor of Dempsey & Windle, an independent poetry publishing company
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Featured Poet, Nicola Harrison
Nicola Harrison is the critically acclaimed author of: The Wordsmith’s Guide.
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Leonie Charlton, New Poetry
Leonie Charlton’s travel memoir will be published by Sandstone Press in 2020.
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2 New poems from Deirdre McKernan Crosby
Greystones poet, Deirdre McKernan Crosby
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2 new poems by Chris Hardy
Roger McGough said ‘Chris consistently hits the right note’
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2 poems by Attracta Fahy
Attracta Fahy was the October winner in Irish Times; New Irish Writing 2019.
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New poetry by Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor’s pamphlet 'Deliberate Sunlight' was published by Black Agnes Press in 2019.
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3 Poems by Özgecan Kesici
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...
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Maggie Mackay, Poetry
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...
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3 poems by Lynn Valentine
Lynn Valentine has won and been placed in competitions including Glasgow Women’s Library Dragon’s Pen Award.
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Poetry by Hugh McMillan
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...
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2 Poems by Gerry Stewart
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...
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Poetry by Angus Strachan
Poet and playwright, Angus Strachan won the International James Joyce Award for dramatic monologue
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3 Poems from David Ishaya Osu
David Ishaya Osu is the poetry editor of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.
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2 poems by Bob Beagrie
Bob Beagrie is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Teesside University.
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Sarah Davies 2 poems
Sarah Davies has been writing from childhood, with gaps for life stuff.
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2 Poems from Ceinwen E Caraid Haydon
Ceinwen Haydon’s first chapbook was published in July 2019: 'Cerddi Bach' [Little Poems], Hedgehog Press.Â
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Matthew James Friday 2 poems
Returning to The Blue Nib, Matthew James Friday.
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2 Poems by Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales
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4 poems by Rachel Burns
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...
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Julie Stevens, Lying in Bed
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...
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1 Poem from Matt Duggan
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...
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Poetry by John Short
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...
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3 new poems by Kevin Griffin
The Blue Nib are much saddened at the news of Kevin Griffin's passing and our thoughts are with his friends and family.
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Poetry from a Maxine Rose Munro
Took the moon I reached out and took the moon
in my hand. I know others think
she's still there in the blueblack
sky lighting the world like...
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Helen Angell- New Poetry
Helen Angell is a poetry and non-fiction writer based in South Yorkshire. She has had poems published in Route 57, Medea and Esoterica. Winner...
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The Settlement-Chris Boyland
The Settlement I’d borrowed some of your words - ‘wrong’, ‘useless’, ‘stupid’, ‘useless’ (seem to have two of those - dunno - maybe one’s a hand-me-down from your Mum.) You...
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3 poems by Emma Lee
Stitching America (for Gloria) It started at Kansas, roughly centre,
and two strands of blue for back stitches: the calm, smooth line of a river.
At each stitch, it...
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