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Nicky Arscott
Nicky Arscott
	Nicky Arscott
Born	Nicky Arscott; 14 April 1983; Oxford, England
Education	MA Creative Writing, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Known for	art, poetry, poem comics

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Nicky Arscott is a poet and artist who lives and works near Machynlleth, Powys, Wales.

Early life

Nicky Arscott was born in Oxford in 1983 and grew up in Ledbury.

Education

She studied English Literature at Bristol University (BA 2005) and Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Austin, USA (MA 2008).

Art

Nicky's work combines visual art and poetry, often taking the form of a 'poem comic'. Her poem comics have been published by Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review,^[1] and Bat City Review (USA).

Nicky has exhibited in Texas, Hereford and London, including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and was a winner at the Society of Women Artists’ 150th anniversary exhibition.^[2] She was artist in residence at Hay Festival in 2014.

Poetry

Her poetry has been published in Ambit, Mslexia, The North, The Rialto, and her pamphlet Soft Mutation was published by Rack Press in 2015. In 2013 she received a New Writers Bursay from Literature Wales.

In a review of Soft Mutation (978-0-9931045-1-0), Éadaoín Lynch writes of Arscott's 'preoccupation with womanhood and over-sexualised femininity, and their connection to detachment and death.'^[3] Alison Brackenbury writes that 'her use of the colloquial is easy and powerful. Her poems, with no layer of artifice, can shift frighteningly in their briefest of lines.'^[4]

External Links

Artist's profile at The Horsebox Gallery.

References

^ Nicky Arscott, Greg Koehler (Winter 2015). "Stallion Ford". New Welsh Reader.
^ "Nicky Arscott and Paul Davies exhibitions at The Courtyard". Hereford Times. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
^ Lynch, Éadaoín (1 October 2015). "The Blue Cell AND Soft Mutation by Anna Lewis and Nicky Arscott respectively". New Welsh Review. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
^ Brackenbury, Julia (January 2016). "Transparency". PN Review Online. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

[1] Nicky Arscott, Greg Koehler (Winter 2015). "Stallion Ford". New Welsh Reader.

[2] "Nicky Arscott and Paul Davies exhibitions at The Courtyard". Hereford Times. Retrieved 2016-03-06.

[3] Lynch, Éadaoín (1 October 2015). "The Blue Cell AND Soft Mutation by Anna Lewis and Nicky Arscott respectively". New Welsh Review. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

[4] Brackenbury, Julia (January 2016). "Transparency". PN Review Online. Retrieved 6 March 2016.

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