Nick Burbridge Biography

Nick Burbridge is an Anglo-Irish poet, who has also worked as a playwright, novelist, journalist, short story and song writer. He lives in Brighton, UK, married with three children. Nick is an outspoken sufferer from chronic depression, which both inspires and delimits his creative work.
He has published three collections of poetry: On Call (Envoi Poets Publications) , All Kinds Of Disorder (Waterloo Press) , and The Unicycle Set (Waterloo Press) . Poems have appeared in many major UK magazines, including Ambit, Agenda, and Acumen. He has also released an album of readings of poems from All Kinds Of Disorder accompanied by music/effects.
As a singer/songwriter he has made six albums with his band McDermott’s Two Hours, The Enemy Within, World Turned Upside Down, Claws And Wings, Disorder, Goodbye To The Madhouse and Besieged, the last five in collaboration with The Levellers, who also recorded his song Dirty Davey on their eponymous number one-selling album, and featured him on a live DVD, Chaos Theory.
His plays include Dirty Tricks (Soho Theatre Company) , Vermin (Finborough) , Cock Robin (Verity Bargate Award Runner-up) , Scrap (South East Arts commission/Regional Tour) , and double bills Neck/Cutting Room (Bright Red Theatre) , and Acts Of Violence (Brighton Actors’ Theatre) . He used to run his own fringe company, Tommy McDermott’s Theatre, which often worked with local colleges, youth theatre groups, and centres for the disabled.
BBC Radio Drama productions feature Grosse Fugue (Monday Play) , Rites Of Passage (Afternoon Play) , and several short stories.
As a novelist, he had Operation Emerald (Pluto) published under the pseudonym Dominic McCartan, and republished in the States by Red Dembner. He collaborated with Captain Fred Holroyd on War Without Honour (Harrap/Medium) , a non-fiction book launched at the House of Commons.
His short stories have been printed regularly in literary magazines, and in Arts Council anthologies New Stories 5 and 6 (Hutchinson) and 20 Stories (Secker & Warburg) .
Nick has worked also as a PhD student, busker, carer, and voluntary worker in infant and primary schools.