My publications
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Copies of Volta come with a free postcard too!
Apologies but I can only send to the UK/EU at present. If you'd like international postage, please get in touch with me.
Copies of Volta come with a free postcard too!
Apologies but I can only send to the UK/EU at present. If you'd like international postage, please get in touch with me.
My pamphlet, Exorcism Becomes Habit, is available for pre-order
from Hem Press.
PRE-ORDER HERE
RELEASE DATE: 24th March 2023
A banishing of negative emotions, Exorcism Becomes Habit drenches readers with language by slipping between narratives and voices: a purge through writing which questions identity, expression and knowledge. This is the author at her most daring and original.
My collection, Fanny B. Mine, is published by Beir Bua Press.
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A modern day exploration of John Keat's and Fanny Brawne's relationship. What would happen if these two lovers had met today? How would modern technology intermingle with their words of love?
An experimental journey with interpretations, redaction, visual poetry, love poems and reactions to one of the most famous relationships in history. This comes from a deep admiration of Keats but also knowing he was not perfect.
"Fanny B. Mine is a rollicking read. It is a thrilling visual and poetic feast that takes the John Keats/Fanny Brawne love story and gives it a refreshing 21st century shake-up." - Anne Daly, Poets' Directory.
-Read the full review
"Fanny B. Mine by Nikki Dudley is beautifully creative; her writing is visual, inspiring, innovative, always has so much heart and this collection made me laugh so many times."
-Louise Mather, poet
"I was enthralled by this reimagining of Keats and Fanny in the modern day."
-Rose Knapp, poet
Fanny B. Mine has been added to a syllabus in an American University for the module, 'Advanced creative writing: poetry'.
BUY HERE
READ A SAMPLE
A modern day exploration of John Keat's and Fanny Brawne's relationship. What would happen if these two lovers had met today? How would modern technology intermingle with their words of love?
An experimental journey with interpretations, redaction, visual poetry, love poems and reactions to one of the most famous relationships in history. This comes from a deep admiration of Keats but also knowing he was not perfect.
"Fanny B. Mine is a rollicking read. It is a thrilling visual and poetic feast that takes the John Keats/Fanny Brawne love story and gives it a refreshing 21st century shake-up." - Anne Daly, Poets' Directory.
-Read the full review
"Fanny B. Mine by Nikki Dudley is beautifully creative; her writing is visual, inspiring, innovative, always has so much heart and this collection made me laugh so many times."
-Louise Mather, poet
"I was enthralled by this reimagining of Keats and Fanny in the modern day."
-Rose Knapp, poet
Fanny B. Mine has been added to a syllabus in an American University for the module, 'Advanced creative writing: poetry'.
My pamphlet, I'd Better Let You Go,
is published by Beir Bua Press.
You can order it on their site.
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An exploration of love and loss, through the gaze of dementia. This is a collection about an elderly relative, their family's experience of their dementia, and a reflection on their life and what it means to lose them.
REVIEWS:
"Vascillating between poetic prose and originally experimental verse, Nikki Dudley's 'I'd better let you go' perfectly captures the nuances of loving someone suffering from dementia. The experimental poems smartly enact the slippage of mind - while immediate confessional poems starkly paint a tender picture of living with the disease."
- Teo Eve, poet and fiction writer
"Nikki Dudley has created a literary platter of delicious delights, blending prose and poetry, pushing the boundaries of experimental writing to create a chapbook brimming with emotion which on every page asks the question: how to be human when what makes us human is incrementally being stripped away?"
-Laura Besley, author of 100neHundred
"I found this a touching and uniquely creative pamphlet."
- Read the full review on the Sphinx website
"A beautiful tribute to a lost loved one, and to the ways we love. Everyone will find something of their own family in this collection. Moving, funny, bittersweet."
-Arden Hunter, poet
"A powerful, at times painful, yet ultimately uplifting, collection celebrating the life of Dudley’s beloved nan."
-JP Seabright, poet and Full House Lit Mag co-editor
is published by Beir Bua Press.
You can order it on their site.
READ A SAMPLE
An exploration of love and loss, through the gaze of dementia. This is a collection about an elderly relative, their family's experience of their dementia, and a reflection on their life and what it means to lose them.
REVIEWS:
"Vascillating between poetic prose and originally experimental verse, Nikki Dudley's 'I'd better let you go' perfectly captures the nuances of loving someone suffering from dementia. The experimental poems smartly enact the slippage of mind - while immediate confessional poems starkly paint a tender picture of living with the disease."
- Teo Eve, poet and fiction writer
"Nikki Dudley has created a literary platter of delicious delights, blending prose and poetry, pushing the boundaries of experimental writing to create a chapbook brimming with emotion which on every page asks the question: how to be human when what makes us human is incrementally being stripped away?"
-Laura Besley, author of 100neHundred
"I found this a touching and uniquely creative pamphlet."
- Read the full review on the Sphinx website
"A beautiful tribute to a lost loved one, and to the ways we love. Everyone will find something of their own family in this collection. Moving, funny, bittersweet."
-Arden Hunter, poet
"A powerful, at times painful, yet ultimately uplifting, collection celebrating the life of Dudley’s beloved nan."
-JP Seabright, poet and Full House Lit Mag co-editor
My collection, Hope Alt Delete, is published by
Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2016).
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEWS:
'Nikki’s energy rustles behind each line, as she plays with familiar words and makes
them at once more explicit and more unknown.'
- Judy Darley, SkyLightRain
'Finally, some contemporary poetry that doesn’t suck!'
- Dane Cobain, Social Bookshelves
Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2016).
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEWS:
'Nikki’s energy rustles behind each line, as she plays with familiar words and makes
them at once more explicit and more unknown.'
- Judy Darley, SkyLightRain
'Finally, some contemporary poetry that doesn’t suck!'
- Dane Cobain, Social Bookshelves
My psychological thriller, Ellipsis, is published by Sparkling Books (2010).
"Right on time," Daniel Mansen mouths to Alice as she pushes him to his death. Haunted by these words, Alice becomes obsessed with discovering how a man she didn't know could predict her actions. On the day of the funeral, Daniel's cousin, Thom, finds a piece of paper in Daniel's room detailing the exact time and place of
his death.
As Thom and Alice both search for answers, they become knotted together in a story
of obsession, hidden truths and the gaps in everyday life that can destroy or save a person.
Ellipsis is a disturbing thriller stemming from what is left unsaid, what bounces around in the mind and evaporates when trying to remember. Can there be a conclusion when no-one seems to know the truth?
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEWS:
'It’s a tale that will keep them wondering, gasping, thinking, smiling, grimacing, rereading.
What more can a reader ask for?'
-Mike Lipkin, Noir Journal
'The cover of Ellipsis reflects perfectly what's in the tin.
An original and disturbing psychological thriller that never lets up.'
- Sally Spedding, author
'This is the type of story that keeps a reader up half the night.'
- Maureen Vincent-Northam, author
"Right on time," Daniel Mansen mouths to Alice as she pushes him to his death. Haunted by these words, Alice becomes obsessed with discovering how a man she didn't know could predict her actions. On the day of the funeral, Daniel's cousin, Thom, finds a piece of paper in Daniel's room detailing the exact time and place of
his death.
As Thom and Alice both search for answers, they become knotted together in a story
of obsession, hidden truths and the gaps in everyday life that can destroy or save a person.
Ellipsis is a disturbing thriller stemming from what is left unsaid, what bounces around in the mind and evaporates when trying to remember. Can there be a conclusion when no-one seems to know the truth?
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEWS:
'It’s a tale that will keep them wondering, gasping, thinking, smiling, grimacing, rereading.
What more can a reader ask for?'
-Mike Lipkin, Noir Journal
'The cover of Ellipsis reflects perfectly what's in the tin.
An original and disturbing psychological thriller that never lets up.'
- Sally Spedding, author
'This is the type of story that keeps a reader up half the night.'
- Maureen Vincent-Northam, author
My chapbook, exits/origins, was published by
Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2010).
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEW:
'Dudley’s indulgence of what the poet Charles Bernstein has called ‘writing centered on its wordness’ gives her poems their depth, their energy, their humour and their resistance of closure.'
- Colin Herd, poet
Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2010).
READ A SAMPLE
REVIEW:
'Dudley’s indulgence of what the poet Charles Bernstein has called ‘writing centered on its wordness’ gives her poems their depth, their energy, their humour and their resistance of closure.'
- Colin Herd, poet
Publication history
*Nominated for Best of the Net 2022 by Acropolis Journal*
1 poem 'B/_{}[]!>' published in issue 5 of Acropolis Journal (2022)
1 poem 'Curriculum Vitae of a Time Memory Bomb' in Issue 1 of Cutbow Quarterly (2022)
1 poem 'After the scream/wonder' published in Issue 3 of Acropolis Journal (2022)
1 poem 'What you cannot see' at Osmosis Press (2022)
1 poem 'When you die' at Selcouth Station Press (2022)
2 poems in Overground/Underground magazine issue 2 (2021) - buy it here!
2 pieces of short fiction at Selcouth Station Press (2021)
3 pieces of visual poetry on the Beir Bua blog (2021)
2 poems in Coven Poetry issue 3 (2021)
Short story 'The Night Carer' in Untitled Voices issue 3 part 3 (2021)
Poem 'Memory 3' in Full House Lit (Wild Card Issue 3) (2021)
Poem 'Ron Swanson, We Still Never Talk Sometimes' in Daily Drunk Mag (2021)
3 poems in Coven Poetry issue 2 (2021)
3 poems at Babel Tower Notice Board (2021)
Poem 'Learning' at Sledgehammer Lit (2021)
Poem 'TO LET GO ISN'T SIMPLE' in Re-side Issue 9 (2021, page 20)
Poem 'Unravelled' at Windows Facing Windows Review (2021)
Poem 'Mortality' on the Osmosis Press site (2021)
Poems 'My dear Fanny' (redacted letter) and 'Where are we going?' at Beir Bua Journal (issue 2) (2021)
Poem 'To Read' at Babel Tower Notice Board (2021)
Visual poem 'Scars call me' in Poem Atlas exhibition, Refraction (2021)
Poem 'Falling Off' at Selcouth Station (2021)
Poem 'How to de-construct a family' at Selcouth Station (2020)
Poem 'To... something' at The Abandoned Playground (2020)
Poem 'Calendar of a dying man (part 2) in Full House Lit Mag (page 17) (2020)
Poem 'A modern love story' in Untitled Writing's Voices issue 2 (part 2) (2020)
Poems 'FEAR' and 'Remake me' at Babel Tower Notice Board (2020)
Poems 'Des humains san amour' and 'Calendar of a dying man (part 3) in Howling Press magazine (2020)
Poem 'Do Eyes Exist' in Lucky Pierre Zine (2020)
Poem 'Throw me to the wind' in Selcouth Station's online zine issue 1 (2020) - £2 for download
2 poems in issue 4 of Adjacent Pineapple (2018)
Hope Alt Delete collection published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2016)
Poem featured in the 'Blackpool Illuminations' (2016)
exits/origins chapbook published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2010)
Her work has also appeared in/on: Fly on the Wall Press 'chaos' issue, etcetera art blogspot, Dance to Death, Openned.com, The Delinquent magazine, Quattrocentro magazine, Libertine magazine, Ronin Press, the W.I.S.H website and con-struct.
PRIZES
Winner of the Virginia Prize for fiction 2020.
Shortlisted in the London Writers competition 2003 and won the Promise Prize for poetry in 2005. Also shortlisted in the IdeasTap Inspires programme in 2014.
1 poem 'B/_{}[]!>' published in issue 5 of Acropolis Journal (2022)
1 poem 'Curriculum Vitae of a Time Memory Bomb' in Issue 1 of Cutbow Quarterly (2022)
1 poem 'After the scream/wonder' published in Issue 3 of Acropolis Journal (2022)
1 poem 'What you cannot see' at Osmosis Press (2022)
1 poem 'When you die' at Selcouth Station Press (2022)
2 poems in Overground/Underground magazine issue 2 (2021) - buy it here!
2 pieces of short fiction at Selcouth Station Press (2021)
3 pieces of visual poetry on the Beir Bua blog (2021)
2 poems in Coven Poetry issue 3 (2021)
Short story 'The Night Carer' in Untitled Voices issue 3 part 3 (2021)
Poem 'Memory 3' in Full House Lit (Wild Card Issue 3) (2021)
Poem 'Ron Swanson, We Still Never Talk Sometimes' in Daily Drunk Mag (2021)
3 poems in Coven Poetry issue 2 (2021)
3 poems at Babel Tower Notice Board (2021)
Poem 'Learning' at Sledgehammer Lit (2021)
Poem 'TO LET GO ISN'T SIMPLE' in Re-side Issue 9 (2021, page 20)
Poem 'Unravelled' at Windows Facing Windows Review (2021)
Poem 'Mortality' on the Osmosis Press site (2021)
Poems 'My dear Fanny' (redacted letter) and 'Where are we going?' at Beir Bua Journal (issue 2) (2021)
Poem 'To Read' at Babel Tower Notice Board (2021)
Visual poem 'Scars call me' in Poem Atlas exhibition, Refraction (2021)
Poem 'Falling Off' at Selcouth Station (2021)
Poem 'How to de-construct a family' at Selcouth Station (2020)
Poem 'To... something' at The Abandoned Playground (2020)
Poem 'Calendar of a dying man (part 2) in Full House Lit Mag (page 17) (2020)
Poem 'A modern love story' in Untitled Writing's Voices issue 2 (part 2) (2020)
Poems 'FEAR' and 'Remake me' at Babel Tower Notice Board (2020)
Poems 'Des humains san amour' and 'Calendar of a dying man (part 3) in Howling Press magazine (2020)
Poem 'Do Eyes Exist' in Lucky Pierre Zine (2020)
Poem 'Throw me to the wind' in Selcouth Station's online zine issue 1 (2020) - £2 for download
2 poems in issue 4 of Adjacent Pineapple (2018)
Hope Alt Delete collection published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2016)
Poem featured in the 'Blackpool Illuminations' (2016)
exits/origins chapbook published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (2010)
Her work has also appeared in/on: Fly on the Wall Press 'chaos' issue, etcetera art blogspot, Dance to Death, Openned.com, The Delinquent magazine, Quattrocentro magazine, Libertine magazine, Ronin Press, the W.I.S.H website and con-struct.
PRIZES
Winner of the Virginia Prize for fiction 2020.
Shortlisted in the London Writers competition 2003 and won the Promise Prize for poetry in 2005. Also shortlisted in the IdeasTap Inspires programme in 2014.