August 7th 2025- NICOLE DURMAN

We are delighted to be presenting Nicole at our FRP Zoom event.

Nicole Durman is a prize-winning poet and nurse living in Somerset, having moved from the USA in 2011. Nicole is a member of the Fire River Poetry group and has previously been published in Balancing on a Bootheel: New Voices in Poetry from Southeast Missouri, and in Lines in the Sand: an anthology of poetry and flash fiction, caught between the tides and terra firma. Her debut collection, Ghosts of Nightshifts Past, is the result of a career spanning both A&E and hospice nursing. 

Ghosts of Nightshifts Past will allow readers to journey from a frenetic resus bay in A&E to the hushed corridors of a hospice, through the eyes of a nurse and poet. With both humour and humility, the author tells the stories of patients and staff alike, a rare window behind closed doors and curtains.