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Cath Nichols

Part I and Part II Tutor, Creative Writing

Research Interests

Cath Nichols' first full-length poetry collection, My Glamorous Assistant (Headland Publications, 2007), delights in story and place, taking alyrical journey from the back yards of Liverpool to the skyscrapers of NewYork - via Woolworths!

Cath has worked for BBC Radio in Manchester, as a free-lance journalistand in mental health. She was co-ordinator of Liverpool's Dead Good PoetsSociety for four years until 2006. In 2006 she was recorded for the Oxfam'Life Lines' CD, and radio work was commissioned by Lancaster litfest. She also completed her MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.

Cath is now studying for a PhD in Poetry, Radio and new media Audio with Paul Farley, and teaches CREW 103.

Reviewers comment:

'Cath Nichols is a mistress of disguise: her monologues come at you withan astonishing array of emotion and experience.' Sarah Hymas, editor FlaxBooks, litfest. Her poetry pamphlet is Tales of Boy Nancy: 'These poems smell of the sea,of ropes and swilled decks, and yet - Ambivalence - as it is in lifeitself - is at the heart of Nichols' poems; the tone is both robust andelegiac.' Matt Simpson

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