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Greg Thomas (he/him)
Greg Thomas (he/him)
@gregchthomas.bsky.social
Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
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I'm showing some work at UWE Bristol, 29 Nov to 1 Dec: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/oopress/
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A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan’s Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry Recorded 6 Oct at the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social discusses Morgan’s experiments in dadaist visual & sonic poetics, his concrete “poem-objects” & surrealist collages #poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBpF...
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Book here for @gregchthomas.bsky.social 's lunchtime lecture in Edinburgh at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social on Tuesday 6 October. You can book to watch online too. Free but ticketed. festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/a-home-in-space-edwin-morgans-concrete-visual-and-sound-poetry/
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We’re very pleased to bring you Issue 3 of The Visual Poetry Times! So many great contributors including Lemn Sissay, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, @leiabutler.bsky.social, @gregchthomas.bsky.social & @alecfinlay.bsky.social! Order your copy via www.thepoetrykiosk.com 🗞️📨
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Still a few tickets left for Thursday's Edinburgh launch of A Home in Space by Edwin Morgan @fruitmarket.bsky.social with @gregchthomas.bsky.social @danpower.bsky.social Iona Lee, Hamish Whyte, and myself, all talking visual and sound poetry. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...
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Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social on Edwin Morgan's Colour Poems (they are included in our new volume of Morgan's concrete, visual and sound poetry *A Home in Space* from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social ) www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
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Upcoming launches - the first one at the Hunterian in Glasgow on 17 September - for this wonderful book 'A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan's Selected Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry' by @essencepress.bsky.social and @gregchthomas.bsky.social published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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Our first launch is at the Hunterian in Glasgow on 17 September 6pm. Book your free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-home-in-...
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Our rather beautiful Edwin Morgan book is finally making its way out into the world! It has been a great experience to work with @gregchthomas.bsky.social and @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on this. Here is a box of the books I have ready for our first launch in Glasgow. We'd love to see you there.
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“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave “concrete poetry” its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan #SkyscraperDay #concretepoetry 2/2 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am...
New Oo postcards. *Blossom Blanket* and *Blossom Blanket (detail)* by Vik Shirley. £7 incl postage anywhere. Buy here: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
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I'm selling some beautiful photoprints and woodblock prints by Robin Gillanders and Gary Hincks to raise money for the first book on Ian Hamilton Finlay's collaborators. All at affordable prices! Visit below and consider making a purchase. And please repost! Xx oo-press.com/fundraising-...
I rarely go on bluesky but am jumping on this one after seeing @atarbuck.bsky.social's trio. Describe yourself in three characters.
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“He was an advocate of the new, & that made him stand out in a Scottish modernist literary milieu where there was a kind of gruff, backwards-looking impulse” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on A HOME IN SPACE, a new collection of Edwin Morgan’s concrete, visual & sound #poetry list.co.uk/news/greg-th...
Sharing news of an amazing sounding conference co-organized by @india_oswin. I was too chaotic to share the CFP in time but if you're interested in material and visual poetics, get a spot at the link and head to UCL www.eventbrite.com/e/reframing-...
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This month’s TFN magazine asks: “after the election, will the sector’s voice be heard?” - we hear from Sarah Redmond of @alliancescot.bsky.social @carorance.bsky.social of @foescot.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social of @humanistsociety.bsky.social and many more Read it all here:
If you like the sound of this please do donate. I understand it's a hard time economically for lots of us and I'm hugely grateful for the support I've received so far. Even small donations are hugely appreciated and you'll get your name in the book! Head to www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
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This will be a fascinating and beautiful book, and an essential addition to the work on Ian Hamilton Finlay - well worth supporting.
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
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Please take a look at Greg’s crowdfunding campaign to support the publication of ‘Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay’, which will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, a collaborator, a friend, and sometimes an adversary ⬇️
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
Greg Thomas (he/him) reposted
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
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Publishing crowdfunder: 'Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay' will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, collaborator, friend, and sometimes an adversary. Edited by @gregchthomas.bsky.social info & fundraiser link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
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“On a wet and wintry afternoon in January, with the Braan in spate, licking the edges of the lower walkways, the work brings a kind of mammalian warmth to the dark and damp” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on walking Scotland’s Corbenic Poetry Path #poetry artuk.org/discover/sto...
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Artist Michael Fullerton chatted with @gregchthomas.bsky.social about his new exhibition at the City Art Centre (running until 12 April). They discussed his new portraits of asylum seekers and his career-long focus on screen-printing the historically misunderstood. Read here 👉 bit.ly/4aI1oRb
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Keith McIntyre’s new exhibition What Lies Beyond blends Covid isolation in the Hebrides with the digital 'Zoom' aesthetic and Japanese Butoh theatre. This show is a key highlight of this year's RSA 200 celebrations 🥳 read @gregchthomas.bsky.social interview with the artist here: bit.ly/4sbPbv4
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“After hours there can be no trespassing, no entry, no press access; DO NOT FORCE THE DOORS.” Peter Liversidge’s playful new work, The Rules of the Library, now looms large over the reading rooms of @natlibscot.bsky.social. Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here: bit.ly/rulesoflib
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Lovely post from @gregchthomas.bsky.social at Oo-Press, David Bellingham's "THE SPACE BETWEEN TWO THINGS IS A THIRD THING" available to order here: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
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Fab early offer on A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry by Edwin Morgan coming in June from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Order the book on the @waterstones.bsky.social app or website by 20 Feb and you get 25% off. Enter FEB26 at the check-out. www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...
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Much anticipated beautiful post today! @vikshirley.bsky.social's Persona Digitalia published by @photoworks-uk.bsky.social: photoworks.org.uk/shop/p5-vik-... @jungcharlotte.bsky.social's "Straitjacket" & Félix Delandre's "Chaos" published by @gregchthomas.bsky.social: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
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Call for papers for a special issue of the *Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry* on concrete & visual poetries. Edited by Colin Herd & Greg Thomas. 250-300-word abstracts to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026 poetry.openlibhums.org/news/867/ Please repost and share!
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🍁🐝🦇 This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
Call for papers for a special issue of the *Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry* on concrete & visual poetries. Edited by Colin Herd & Greg Thomas. 250-300-word abstracts to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026 poetry.openlibhums.org/news/867/ Please repost and share!
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Artists Helen Douglas and Jake Harvey invite viewers into a “compressed universe” in their exhibition 'Meeting Point: within the Lewisian' at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist. Read writer @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here 👉 bit.ly/meeting-poin...
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“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan #SkyscraperDay #concretepoetry 2/2 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am...
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HEATWAVE The latest issue of @booksfromscotland.bsky.social recommends the hottest Scottish books, including the best in new fiction, memoir, history, nature writing & children's books, along with celebrating some literary legends 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/issue/heatwa...
V pleased to have a review of the new Collected Mary Ellen Solt in the current PN Review @carcanet.bsky.social. www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issue
I've written about IH Finlay, Alexander Trocchi, and George MacDonald Fraser for @booksfromscotland.bsky.social Three centenaries, three tricky characters. An interesting commission this one.... booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/cent...
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In the post today, these three beauties by Em Filtness, Nicky Melville, & @gregchthomas.bsky.social available to order here: oo-press.com/postcard-poe... Thank you Greg for the extra gift 😍