Scotland’s best kept secret, ahem, Nicky [nick-e] Melville has been described positively as an ‘avant-radge’ and pejoratively as ‘a poet.’ Melville’s most recent publications are visual pieces: Power Cuts (zimZalla, 2024), sounding out (Essence Press, 2024) and magic’s quair, a free card with Timglaset, 2023. His magnum-opus (to date!) The Imperative Commands came out with Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2022 and Decade of Cu ts, his selected poems, was published in 2021 with Blue Diode Press. He is working on the third book in his ABBODIES trilogy, in which pop legends ABBA team up with problematic fave James Bond to make sense of the horror of Brexit and geopolitical coincidence. He makes music as Fuck This, a project which could be described as Ivor Cutler on [nick-]e. Melville is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Edinburgh with his partner and their whippet puppy Beckett.
