Nandi Jola announced as editor of Trumpet Issue 14
Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce that poet and playwright Nandi Jola has been selected as editor of Trumpet Issue 14, which will be published later this year.
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.
Past issues of Trumpet and Poetry Ireland publications are available to buy online here and in bookstores across Ireland. Poetry Ireland is supported by The Arts Council Ireland and the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.