Trumpet Issue 14 Launch

We are delighted to launch Trumpet Issue 14, edited by Nandi Jola, on the 30th of October at 6pm at No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast.

Trumpet is Poetry Ireland's annual literary pamphlet, published to complement the longer-established Poetry Ireland Review, and serves to showcase diverse voices in Ireland and beyond. Each issue of Trumpet is compiled by a guest editor, foregrounding their own experience of poetry and the wider world to assemble a distinctive suite of poems, book reviews, artwork, and opinion pieces, all presented in Trumpet's distinctive livery and design. Recent editors of Trumpet include Helen Hutchinson, William Keohane, Dr Tapasya Narang, Mícheál McCann, and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan.

Nandi Jola is a poet and playwright born in Gqebera, South Africa and based in Northern Ireland. Her debut poetry collection, Home Is Neither Here nor There, was published in 2022. In 2024, she was a contributor for the publication Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration, a new poetry anthology series exploring themes around African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility. She is currently a research fellow at the Ulster Museum, where she continues her ongoing work with colonial legacies, and holds a Master’s degree in Poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

Please come along to hear from Nandi and many other contributors on the night!