The fifth volume of the literary journal from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
The Yellow Nib is the literary journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, established in February 2003, at Queen's University Belfast.
The journal takes the inspiration for its title from the Early Irish poem known, in English, as ‘The Blackbird of Belfast Lough’, which is thought to have been written in the margin of a manuscript by a scribe in the eighth or ninth century. An image of the blackbird, from a wood engraving by Jeffrey Morgan, is now the emblem of the Seamus Heaney Centre, and consequently of The Yellow Nib itself.
Edited by the acclaimed poet and author Ciaran Carson, the aim of journal is simple: to publish good writing by both established and emerging writers.
Volume five of the journal contains contributions from:
Medbh McGuckian
David Hayden
Barbara Smith
Eoghan Ryan
Erin Halliday
Barbara Morton
Andrew Jamison
Jay Parini
Rachael Boast
Theo Dorgan
Jorge Luis Borges translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Enda Coyle-Greene
Alison Brackenbury
Emily DeDakis
Alan Gillis
Jack Underwood