The Returning Tide

The Returning Tide “One million known species. The most familiar of these, one of the world’s largest cities.” The Returning Tide is a collage series and poetry sequence that charts a constantly shifting city, just over the horizon. Made up of 110 framed playing card sized collages, the series explores the implicitly divinatory nature of […]

Walk Cycles Water Cycles

Walk Cycles / Water Cycles “REC1: For the next few moments you will be able to witness a moment from another time, from the recent past. Your walking partner is making the shift, but you will be the observer.” Walk Cycles / Water Cycles is an attempt to draw out and highlight the interpersonal, communal […]

Ebbing

Ebbing “When certain conditions (p12) present themselves (p18), forgotten things can be revealed. Geological (p26), political, technological – human. The final condition for this particular situation, is you.” Ebbing: A Primer for Becoming a Fluid Body is a historical walking performance for one, a game manual, a poetry sequence and a speculative fiction. Using light roleplay […]

Tamagotchi Seance #2

Tamagotchi Seance #2 Reach back through that path of hyperlinks and your map of unclosed tabs. Find your old companion, long since dead, and ask what the world looks like from the beyond. Tamagotchi Seance #2 is a love letter to, and a eulogy for, your long gone, digital pets. Part glitch poetic, part occult […]

European Poetry Festival 2023

European Poetry Festival “I consider how my father came over stood in my bedroom as if lost a corkscrew swinging on his thumb like a pendulum in a wall clock.” Nick was invited to take part in the European Poetry Festival 2023 as part of the Latvian Poetry Celebration. Collaborating with Latvian poet Ivars Šteinbergs, […]

Tamagotchi and Death Micro Talk

Tamagotchis and Death: Micro Talk In January 2023, Nick was invited to the Arcadia games festival and conference in Dundee, Scotland. As part of this they gave a microtalk on Tamagotchis and how death is used in the digital pet’s life cycle. This five minute talk led to a full length presentation that Nick has […]

Playing Poetry

Playing Poetry In February 2023 Nick founded Playing Poetry, an organisation that champions playful and interactive literature, through exhibitions, workshops and tailored events. The goal is to present a platform for game-based writing and provide an inclusive network for writers and game-makers. Playing Poetry has emerged from many years in poetry publishing, producing live literature, […]

Interview for the San Clemente podcast

For the launch of Poetry Games, I was invited to talk to Grace Shackleton about curating the exhibition and championing interactive writing for San Clemente Magazine’s podcast.  Listen to the episode below. Somehow the conversation led to discussing watching Hamlet in real time, making The Queue: The Show and petting the dog in games! Turns out […]

Publication in Footprints (Broken Sleep)

My poem Doomscrolling as Dowsing for Reports of the First Impact has been published in Broken Sleep Books’ ecopoetry anthology Footprints: an Anthology of New Ecopoetry.  You can get the book here.

Local Water – Careful Networks

Local Water “The promontory of our everyday turned upside down. Inverted so as to make water newly familiar.” Spanning hundreds of years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Ludenwic, through the contemporary domestic setting of a council flat in the shadow of gentrification, to a flooded future of speculative architecture, Local Water is part poetic journey […]