Glen Wilson lives in Portadown, Co Armagh with his wife and children. He has been widely published having work in The Honest Ulsterman, Iota, Southword and The Incubator Journal amongst others. In 2014 he won the Poetry Space competition and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize.  He won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2017 for his Poem The Lotus Gait. He is working towards his first collection.

Lagan Online / Poetry NI – Poetry Day Ireland 2017 Mix Tape

Glen Wilson - Taking Soup (Poetry Day Ireland 2017 Mix Tape)

Tory Campbell is from Belfast.  Her poems have been published in local anthologies, The Stinging Fly and The Irish Independent. Tory was shortlisted for the 2012 Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and was highly commended in the 2014 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. She was winner of the Belfast heat of All Ireland Poetry Slam, and second place for the All Ulster Slam in 2016.

Lagan Online / Poetry NI – Poetry Day Ireland 2017 Mix Tape

Tory Campbell - Braids (Poetry Day Ireland 2017 Mix Tape)

Interviews from the launch of the Belfast Poetry Jukebox, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, Thursday 12th October 2017, part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.

https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/the-poetry-jukebox/

Belfast Poetry Jukebox launch - Glen Wilson And David Braziel

Belfast Poetry Jukebox launch - Deirdre Cartmill And Maria McManus

Brian Kirk is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Dublin. His children’s novel The Rising Son was published in December 2015. He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series in 2013 and highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2014 and 2015. His first poetry collection After The Fall was published by Salmon Poetry in November 2017. He blogs at www.briankirkwriter.com.

Brian Kirk - Two Foxes

Jude Alexzander studied English at Aberdeen University and now lives near Belfast with her other half and various spoilt rescue animals. 
She spends her time writing poetry, short stories and looking for magic in unlikely places.

Jude Alexzander - Turf

Phillip Crymble is a disabled writer and scholar living in Atlantic Canada. A SSHRC doctoral fellow at UNB Fredericton, he holds a MFA from the University of Michigan and has published poems in Oxford Poetry, Magma, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013, The North, The Forward Book of Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first full-length collection, was released by Salmon Poetry in 2015.

Phillip Crymble - Marigolds

Siobhan Campbell received the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, 2016 and holds awards in the National and Troubadour competitions. Her fourth collection is Heat Signature (Seren Press) - ‘an outstanding ear for the music of language’, Robert Crawford. Work is widely anthologised including in New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe) and Womens’ Work:20C poets in English. Siobhan lectures at The Open University and critical work includes The Portable Poetry Workshop and Making Integral: the work of Richard Murphy (CUP).   www.siobhancampbell.com

Siobhan Campbell - Why islanders don't kiss hello

Colin Hassard is a poet from Belfast. In 2018 he was Runner Up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing and was selected as one of Eyewear Publishing’s Best New British and Irish Poets. He is a regular poet on BBC Radio Ulster and is currently developing his first collection of poems with support from the Arts Council NI.

Colin Hassard - First Will

Lynda Tavakoli’s poems have been broadcast on the BBC and RTE and published in a range of anthologies and journals including Skein (Templar), Abridged, Panning for Poems, Circle and Square, The Honest Ulsterman, A New Ulster, Corncrake magazine, Live Encounters and Poems in Profile. Lynda has won both short story and poetry prizes at Listowel and featured as The Irish Times, Hennessy poet of the month in October 2015.

Lynda Tavakoli - What We Waste

Darren Reihill currently lives in Enniskillen where he writes and performs with The Thing Itself. His work can be found in FourXFour, Lagan Online, a few battered notebooks and an even more battered head.

Darren Reihill - A Walk In The Park

Patricia Devlin-Hill was born in Belfast and was first published in The Young Irish Writers column (Irish Times) in the 1970s. The poetry faded then with physics taking its place. Today, Patricia writes in her free time, and is published in Poetry NI’s FourXFour, Community Arts Partnership/Literature and Verbal Arts anthologies and Lagan Online publications. Patricia’s poem ‘Tea’ was short listed for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2016. Patricia is one of Lagan Online’s 12NOW (New Original Writers) and often performs at Poetry NI’s Open Mic Evenings in the Crescent Arts Centre, has been a finalist in the All Ireland and Belfast Festival Poetry Slams, and has read at Red Pill, CAP/LaVA and Waterstones’s hosted events

Patricia Devlin-Hill - The Bookcase

David Braziel is an award winning performance poet who has performed at festivals and events across Northern Ireland and Ireland and has had a number of poems broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and published in local journals and anthologies. His chapbook, 'I Am Not A Poet (and other poems)' was released in May 2015 by Pen Points Press and his one-man show “Too Big for Words” debuted in Belfast in 2017.

David Braziel - Bedtime Story

Marion Clarke is from Warrenpoint, County Down. She has been studying and producing short form poetry including haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga for several years, and finds the combination of prose and haiku offered by the haibun particularly appealing. Her work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies of short form poetry.

Marion Clarke - Forgetting

Karen J McDonnell is a 2017 Hennessy/Irish Times New Irish writer. Her work has been published in Ireland and the U.S.- most recently in The Stony Thursday Book and The Honest Ulsterman - and has won and been listed in competitions including the 2017 Robert Monteith, Poems for Patience, and Dermot Healy Poetry prizes. Non-fiction was nominated for Best of the Net in the U.S. Her debut collection is This Little World (Doire Press, 2017) www.karenjmcdonnell.com

Karen J McDonnell - The Painted Box

Born in Northern Ireland, Jo Burns now lives in Germany. Her poetry
has been published most recently in Southword and Acumen. Work is
forthcoming in Banshee, Poetry Salzburg Review, Oxford Poetry and The Ogham Stone. Jo won the Shirley McClure Poetry Prize at the Los Gatos Irish Writers Festival. Her debut pamphlet "Circling for Gods" was published in March 2018 by Eyewear Publishing.

Jo Burns -Green Milk

Originally from County Dublin, Linda McKenna, has lived in County Down for over 20 years. She has had poems published in A New Ulster, Skylight 47, Panning for Poems, Lagan Online , The Blue Nib, Poetry NI’s Four x Four, Dodging the Rain, Poetry in Motion Community Arts Anthology and forthcoming in The Bangor Literary Journal. Her poem ‘Overpainted’ won the Seamus Heaney award for new writing in 2018.

Linda McKenna - Overpainted

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