The Imperative Commands

by Nicky Melville

THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS is a method-poem in action. Using umpteen numerical and circadian constraints, melville spent one year harvesting and re-planting imperatives, assertions, instructions and ‘facts’ – so you don’t have to! The language of corporate, cultural and state instruction is our new lingua franca, but what, and how, are these instructions instructing us? Read this book to find out. A must-read for anyone who exists today, or tomorrow.

406 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2022

About the author

Nick E. Melville has had poems published in Cutting Tech, Five Leaves Left, The Herald, Haiku Quarterly, Island Lallans, Nerve, New Writing Scotland 19, Nomad, Northwords, Poetry Scotland, Product, Spoke, Underword and xStream. He is a graduate, with distinction, of the MPhil Creative Writing Course at the University of Glasgow.