I’m here to recommend the new (February 2026) collection of poems by Nicky Melville, ‘Get Tae’. Writing also as nick-e melville, he’s one of my favourite poets, Scottish or otherwise. His work is lucid, biting, often darkly funny, satirical and archly acquisitive (in the sense that he borrows brilliantly from the mundane, the political, film, and the realms of ad copy, among other things).

The book is available from Blue Diode Press, who also published his excellent selected poems, ‘Decade of Cu ts’.

https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/get-tae-by-nicky-melville

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