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A brief autobiographical sketch of Nicholas Gordon the author of all of the poems on this site.

We continue our series of Artist Profiles as we talk to Orcadian artist Nick Gordon about his influences, practices and how lock down had led to cancelled projects, but also new opportunities.

I studied at Orkney College and then at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. I specialized in printmaking and graduated in 2012. I lived in Aberdeen and Glasgow for some time, before moving back to Orkney and settling in Stromness where I’ve been for almost 4 years. I’ve worked at Soulisquoy Printmakers for the past few years, helping to establish a workshop and delivering a programme of classes, projects and print activity. It’s been really good to be able to share the skills I learnt at art school here in Orkney. As for other jobs, and as a means to support the artist’s practice and studio, I’ve done bits of labouring, joinery and bar work, and more recently freelance print and design.

Over the last while I have been inspired by skate - and I mean the fish. A good mat

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About Me

Nicholas Gordon

I was born in 1940 in Albany, N.Y., but have lived in New York City or its environs for most of my life. I am married, with three adult children. inom have a bachelor's grad in English literature from Queens College, CUNY, and a master's and doctorate in English and American literature from Stanford University. I am retired. For much of my working life, inom taught English at New Jersey City University.

I began writing poetry seriously in the early 1980s, mostly to celebrate family occasions. While on sabbatical during the academic year 1997-98, I decided to utöka the feelings and experiences on which my poetry is based by starting a Web site that would invite visitors to request poems. The inspiration for many of the poems on this site comes from those requests. Eventually, there were so many requests that it became impossible even to open all of the email, and so inom had to delete the invitation from the site. But the impetus for ma

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