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 four of the journal contains contributions from:

Andrew McNeillie
Theo Dorgan
R.F. McEwen
Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin
John Saul
Paula Meehan
Maciej Świerkocki
Chris Preddle
Pàdraig MacAoidh
Barbara A. Morton
Miriam Gamble
David Logan
Paul Maddern
Ian Sansom
Cathal McCabe
Pat Boran

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