Nimbus (literary magazine)

Nimbus continued as well a tradition of modernism cultivated since the First World War, especially by writers of the Bloomsbury Group and the Auden generation.

The magazine, published by John Trafford at the Halcyon Press, grew in size, stature and reputation from a fifteen-page experiment into a sixty-page provocative venue for new British, Commonwealth and Continental writing.

Nimbus editors rejected strict identification with any one contemporary British literary school, yet often found themselves involved in their debates and controversies.

The Movement poets were themselves reacting against the earlier romantic "New Apocalypse" writers such as George Barker, Anthony Thwaite, G. S. Fraser and Henry Treece.

[8] Nimbus published a diverse group of writers that included Dannie Abse, W. H. Auden, George Barker, Jean Cocteau, Mircea Eliade, T. S. Eliot, Jean Genet, Michael Hastings, Anthony Thwaite, John Heath-Stubbs, C. G. Jung, Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick Swift, Vernon Scannell, Laurie Lee, Bertolt Brecht, George MacBeth, Colin MacInnes, Pablo Neruda, Stevie Smith, Alexander Trocchi, Richard Wilbur and David Wright.