Trumpet Issue 14

Trumpet 14

Trumpet 14, edited by Nandi Jola, is now available to purchase online. It features poetry from Shelley Tracey, Mari Maxwell, Sello Huma, and Amy Abdullah Barry, among others, as well as striking artwork  from Anfaal Al-Mughalles.

Trumpet offers an alternative commentary on the poetry and literary scenes, including both mainstream and marginalised voices. Nandi Jola’s issue focuses on themes of migration, memory, and breath/breathlessness. From the editor: ‘Breath has that lingering sense of travelling somewhere, of being inhaled by something or someone else, and by unravelling the connections of breath comes topics of seeking refuge, drowning, injustice, citizenship, and forced migration.’

These themes are explored in essays and short stories as well as poetry. Viviana Fiorentino considers the concepts of ius sanguinis, ius soli, and ius culturae, and the legal distinctions surrounding the immigration process in her essay, ‘Citizenship’. Alanna Offield’s ‘A Crow Story’ speaks on belonging and ‘flying  between worlds’ from New Mexico and the US/Mexico border to Belfast. The issue also includes a short story from Pallavi Padma-Uday as well as a review, by Landa Wo, of Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration