On the back cover and internet, it is stated that nick-e melville is a scottish poet who does visual stuff and found stuff. his first collection of visual poetry, selections and dissections, was published by otoliths press in 2010. he also does shellsuit massacre (cf. poem 7) with rodney relax: found poetry social commentary to guitar techno. some of these poems, all now in colour, appeared in these places: blazevox, one less magazine, otoliths and sleeping fish; the 10th poem appears on the poet's left forearm, underside. nick-e says: "these are basically all the pieces i've done in colour, and, curiously, there's a higher usage of mixixed media than in my other visual work, including handwriting (poem 12) and skin. some were made using tippex (whiteout) on papers and credit card junk mail (snow pake is an archaic term, from the 70s and 80s). others were created using circles from bags of blue circle cement. i'd always admired the targetesque design, and the blue-on-buff bags, so one time when i was using cement, i cut a few out, when done with the grey powder. the semaphore pieces are colour variations of my homage to ian hamilton finlay. there is a postmodern tattoo, magnified handwriting, and a few other things." In two poems in this book, nick-e melville composed them in a manner analogous to Tom Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.