Blues Are Back in Town, The - A Year and a Lifetime Supporting Cardiff City

Between 2008–2011, Nick Fisk was the editor of Cardiff-based poetry and writers’ magazine, Square, which was a product of the Square Writers’ Circle. A poet himself (who describes his poetry as “not as cheap as Tesco Value but not as pretentious as Tesco Finest”), he has particular flair for performance and slam poetry, and was a finalist in the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry in 2009. He also was one of 4 poets to represent Wales in the first ever tri-nations poetry slam in 2006, where he helped Wales come second. He has self-published seven books of poetry, including “the single before the album”, Departure Lounge 25, Departure Lounge 58 and Daimunz R 4E4. He has also published a book by J. Brookes, entitled The Dresden Cantata, under his own Square Books label.

For around twenty years, Nick Fisk believed that one day he would find a letter on his doormat from Cardiff City FC requesting his services on the football pitch. When he realised it was unlikely he was ever going to be offered the role of groundsman, he decided the next best thing would be to write about the club instead.A former member of the not especially notorious non-hooligan gang, The Sad Crew, Fisk has plenty of experience to draw from, in terms of going to football matches, and coming up with ridiculous chants that nobody ever joins in with.In The Blues Are Back in Town Nick charts the 2014/15 season, following the team and its fans, and trying to rediscover his passion for the recently relegated club, while at the same time, reflecting on the good old days. The blog he kept, The Fisk Report, gave an insight into not just what it’s like to be a typical fan, but what supporting The Bluebirds is like through the eyes of a Fisk.It is a funny, enigmatic and personal book about the passion and belief of being a football fan.