Nick Armbrister (Nicholas Arthur Armbrister) is an English writer, born in Oldham, Lancashire, England in 1971. He is best known for his poetry and short stories published since 1996 in the "small press," his own self published collection of books, which include the poetry volumes Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade (2006), Skeward Images (2007) and Her Name is Hope - Life Force (2008). A collection of short stories A Nation in Flames (2007) brings his early work together.
A collection of aviation based poetry was released in 2009 on lulu, Aeroplane Poems. Two other aircraft collections followed this.
Nick wrote for an online American publisher from 2009-11. He wrote erotica and action stories. He left to further his career.
Nick moved into fiction writing completing two novels in his Juniper's Daughter series, these included Juniper's Daughter The Final War and the follow up Juniper's Daughter Frontier Town, in 2010.
Other collections that contain poems/short stories based upon his Juniper's Daughter character have followed like Juniper's Daughter: War is Obsolete - Futility and Hope.
2011 was a busy year. Nick worked with a goth band and recorded an album of aeroplane themed spoken word poetry. The title is She Flies. Before this, in 09, Nick did an anti gun track after witnessing a shooting.
Nick released his poetry in one complete volume called The Complete Nick Armbrister Poetry Collection. Other collections and volumes, both hard copy/real book and ebook, have followed in the following years.
Nick compiled two short story collections called Heart of the Country Short Story Collection of normal short stories and Take it in Your Stride A Series of Erotic Adult Stories to complement his earlier books.
Ian and Abby Adult Erotic Short Stories is Nick's best selling book of any kind. It eached 37 on the itunes erotica chart in June 2011. In 2014 this collection was slightly edited.
In 2012 Nick released Natalie: Poems of War and Peace, a collection of anti war poems in a free ebook download. It's been downloaded in over twenty countries.
There was also Berlin Tokyo War Hearts and Force of the Blue Shipwreck/sea themed poems.
JUNIPER’S DAUGHTER - FRAGMENTED WHOLE/BLACK LENSE, a collection of dark poetry and short stories.
Next Jump: Erotic Stories was an erotic short story collection.
Three Tears and One Kiss was a romance collection.
Loss of the Icequeen was an old skool horror story in the vein of Hammer House of Horror.
2013 brought Wow! Tattoo My Butt volumes one and two of poetry.
A karate book called Shoki: The Story of Sensei Pete Ratcliff, a childhood friend.
Evenly Erotic: Short Erotic Stories was an erotic collection.
THE RANTINGS OF A DAMAGED MIND co-written with Mel Grobler, a poetry collection.
2014 brought Ian and Abby Go Thai, an adult erotic ebook.
Europa - In The Dark Valley Between The World Wars was co-written with Andy N, a powerful collection of anti war poetry.
The Complete Nick Armbrister Poetry Collection Volume 1, 2 and 3 1996 - 2013 were released.
2015 Syrup Evermore was a collection of gangster, horror and Cold War stories.
Erotic Treacle is a romance/erotic collection.
Dark Delectable Delicious Destructive - Poems for Goths, Gangsters and Other Mysterious Souls: 20 Years of Nick Armbrister's Dark Poems is a volume of 20 years of Nick's darker poems from 1996-2016. It celebrates his varied two decade career.
Pound Cocktail was a revised Pussy Pounder erotic ebook. The title was revised due to itunes title rules.
Elleswyth the Warrior co-written with P.J. Reed, a mystical/goth/erotic story.
2016 Ace Poems co-written with Shy Lhen Esposo, inspired by Spencer Dunmore's novel Ace.
Aeroplane Poems 3 with Shy Lhen Esposo.
Europa II - The True Cost of War with Andy N.
2017 will bring new books/ebooks under both Nick Armbrister and his Jimmy Boom Semtex pen name.
The above list has some of the books Nick Armbrister has done; there are several more not listed.
Early Life
Born in a working class town Oldham, north of Manchester, Nick left school in 1987 and went into college and into several varied jobs ranging from motor vehicle repair, bakery work to fork lift truck driving. His early aspirations to join the Royal Air Force came to nothing. As a child Nick wanted to join the RAF due to his love of aviation and planes but he was put off by the strict discipline. For most of his life Nick lived in and around Oldham where he worked and started writing, his writing stemming from his love of music and reading. Growing up in the latter years of the cold war shaped Nick and he gained a strong interest in aviation and military history. Along with his love of music of that era formed his journey into writing. For a few brief years Nick made plastic model aeroplane kits and drew aircraft drawings on his path to creativity that would eventually stop in his writing. He is an only child.
Other Interests
Nick's other interests include history, all types of weaponary, current affairs, paganism, mysteries, UFOs, reading Liz Hand, James Herbert, Sven Hassel and many more authors. He also likes to travel, visit museums and art galleries, enjoys films and live gigs. Tattoos are another passion and Nick now has 75% percent coverage. His mum didn't like this. But Nick does! He likes to meet new people.
Nick is a non conformist and very much an individual. He's far from perfect but does his best in life and wants the best for everyone and the world.
Writing Career
He tried to join a band but couldn't sing or play any instrument. He follows music like gothic bands of the 1980s like The Mission, All About Eve, The Cult, The Sisters of Mercy and more. He also a fan of 80s pop like The Bangles and Berlin and some metal bands like Metallica and Def Leppard. He got into gothic metal from Europe and Scandinavia in 2001 when a penpal sent him a tape of The Gathering and Lacuna Coil. Nick has tattoos of these two bands and some other band names and other tattoos. All of this inspires his writing and feature in some of his poems. He has seen many gigs live and this inspires his poetry too.
Nick started writing poetry in April 1996 while listening to Goth and metal music at an old friends' flat while getting drunk. Each Wednesday Nick went and drank beer, listened to music and created his very early work. He did up to eight short poems or a few longer ones and took a chance in sending them off to get them published. If he failed and none were accepted, he would of quit writing. But one was accepted in an early issue of an Alanis Morrissette fanzine called The Pill, Nick's poem was called Ode to Alanis.
Other poems were published in the "small press" (poetry scene) in a selection of magazines like pagan magazine Ace of Rods (his long poem in verse The Dark Tower). Nick had poetry included in a variety of poem anthology books featuring various poets. His first was called Through my Eyes in a Poetry Today book called Rivers and Bridges in 1997, more followed. Different subject matter in Nick's poems appeared in collections by the Poetry Guild and in up to half a dozen books by the Select Publications of Tilbury, Essex. Nick appeared in these in the late 90s with up to two poems in a single book (e.g. The Road and Mustiness).
From 2001 Nick was published in DJ Tyrer's series of magazines (Atlantean Publishing), appearing in The Supplement, Awen, Bard, Garbag and Monomyth. Several dozen of his poems on much subject matter have been published up to 2008. Also several short stories appeared in Monomyth which is a short story magazine edited by DJ Tyrer. Two examples of Nick's stories are themed around the Cold War like Red Empire and Final Flight.
Nick lived in Norway during 2002. His stay there influenced his writing.
Nick was first published online in 2003, his poem English Landscapes being featured on a website. This was the start of his online presence which contiues to this day, in blogs, on websites etc.
Nick's only piece to be published in Oldham was called Kahlia Akasha this was in a short story collection book about Oldham titled Big Sky, New Light and was published in 2004. Nick was in the local newspaper called the Advertiser. His story was about an aeroplane.
Nick moved from Oldham in December 2005 to the Essex/London area to further his writing career and to compile his writing anthologies, his first four volumes. This he did until his return to Oldham in late 2008 where Nick continuously wrote.
His first three self published books are with iuniverse of America. The first two are poetry collections Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade and Skeward Images. This was his early poetry. A short story collection followed titled A Nation in Flames; this comprised his stories on war, planes, Goth, horror and more.
Nick compiled a further third volume of poetry under the title of Her Name is Hope - Lifeforce. This contains the rest of his poetry from 1996-2008 that never made his first two poem books and is published by lulu. Dozens more books followed there early releases.
Nick was invited to do spoken word performances and work with a guitarist/band on his poems performing in front of a live audience. This he did in The Abbey pub and also The Gardeners pub in Oldham in 2009. Many other live sets/open mic followed. He attends writing groups, workshops and reads live whenever he can. His books they can be ordered on the websites or in good book shops as hard copy or ebooks.
From 2013 Nick spent time abroad and this inspired his poetry and story telling. His art continues with old ideas being re-visited and new ones worked upon. His words equal the world. Nick is always writing new work and projects.
He has worked in varied jobs like a big bakery in the 90s, fixing cars, as a storeman, in warehouses, as a fork lift driver and most recently, as a call centre agent.
External Links
https://nickgoth555.wixsite.com/website
Nick Armbrister/Jimmy Boom Semtex on blogger: https://jimmyboomsemtex.blogspot.com
Nick Armbrister on lulu: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/nickarmbrister
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