nicky melville
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nicky [nick-e] melville is a poet, creative writing teacher, curator, editor, musician and occasional artist, whose work takes aim at and interrogates the imperatives of capitalism, politics and ideology. He has been grafting on and in the margins for over twenty years developing a range of publications in a variety of forms and genres: found poetry and erasures, visual poetry, lyric experiment, conceptual and post-conceptual writing. A Selected poems, Decade of Cu ts, was published by Blue Diode in 2021 and his 400-page anti-poem-novel hybrid, THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS, his PhD project, has just been published with Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Earlier books include selections and dissections (Otoliths Press, 2010), a collection of visual poetry, and his ABBODIES series (Sad Press) which explore the neoliberal and fascist elements of Brexit through the lens of ABBA songs, aliens and James Bond. He makes music as Fuck This: https://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com.
He writes: "In November 2022 I received an email from my letting agent with the subject heading ‘Preparing for Power Cuts or Planned Black Outs.’ News to me! (And to the staff of the letting agency I found out later.) The tone of the email presented this as an actuality rather than a possibility. The email then proceeded to give advice on what to do both before and after the looming black outs. Following this, I found HM Government’s contingency planning for an energy emergency, titled ‘Electricity Supply Emergency Code,’ which showed planning for national grid shutdowns over eighteen stages to complete blackout—societal breakdown in other words. The ‘Code’ dates from 2019, well before the current energy crisis so-called. ‘Power Cuts’ is a series of abstract representations of the planned pattern of national shutdown contained in the government’s plans."
from Power Cuts
nicky [nick-e] melville is a poet, creative writing teacher, curator, editor, musician and occasional artist, whose work takes aim at and interrogates the imperatives of capitalism, politics and ideology. He has been grafting on and in the margins for over twenty years developing a range of publications in a variety of forms and genres: found poetry and erasures, visual poetry, lyric experiment, conceptual and post-conceptual writing. A Selected poems, Decade of Cu ts, was published by Blue Diode in 2021 and his 400-page anti-poem-novel hybrid, THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS, his PhD project, has just been published with Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Earlier books include selections and dissections (Otoliths Press, 2010), a collection of visual poetry, and his ABBODIES series (Sad Press) which explore the neoliberal and fascist elements of Brexit through the lens of ABBA songs, aliens and James Bond. He makes music as Fuck This: https://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com.
He writes: "In November 2022 I received an email from my letting agent with the subject heading ‘Preparing for Power Cuts or Planned Black Outs.’ News to me! (And to the staff of the letting agency I found out later.) The tone of the email presented this as an actuality rather than a possibility. The email then proceeded to give advice on what to do both before and after the looming black outs. Following this, I found HM Government’s contingency planning for an energy emergency, titled ‘Electricity Supply Emergency Code,’ which showed planning for national grid shutdowns over eighteen stages to complete blackout—societal breakdown in other words. The ‘Code’ dates from 2019, well before the current energy crisis so-called. ‘Power Cuts’ is a series of abstract representations of the planned pattern of national shutdown contained in the government’s plans."
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