@gregchthomas
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.
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...
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...
Two new Oo Press postcards, Chaos by Felix Delandre and Straitjacket by Charlotte Jung. £5 for both including postage. Buy at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
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/
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A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books
Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a
Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
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/
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Two new poem-postcards for sale at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems: Snowdrops by Tessa Berring and SOLID BLISS by Kitty Doherty. £5 for both including postage anywhere. Plus bonus postcard by me, earth side/wombside, for first 25 orders. Buy at link above or DM for trades xx
Two new poem-postcards for sale at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems: Snowdrops by Tessa Berring and SOLID BLISS by Kitty Doherty. £5 for both including postage anywhere. Plus bonus postcard by me, earth side/wombside, for first 25 orders. Buy at link above or DM for trades xx
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
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am...
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
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booksfromscotland.com/issue/heatwa...
One left! DM me if you would like it
New Oo Press poem-object, *bookshelf poem (as the dust)*. Polished grey jesmonite in custom made presentation box. £35 including postage anywhere. Buy at Oo-press.com/poem-objects or DM me xx
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...
There's two of these left if folks would like one....head to Oo-press.com or DM me to buy xx
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 😍
New poem print, *asemic : azure*, available at Oo-press.com/poem-prints. £35 incl. postage 🌎
It’s been a record year for purple emperors in the UK. How serendipitous to have published @gregchthomas.bsky.social’a minimal butterfly poem in the summer issue therefore! 🦋🌀 Issue 10 on sale now.
Highlights from the Dom Sylvester Houédard show at Estorick this weekend. Laminated text collages and typestracts 💜 ❤️
There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. £5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and Em Filtness's *sparkles of time*
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
Science and magic 🪄
Read this artist in focus by @gregchthomas.bsky.social on Glen Onwin 👉 buff.ly/J1THCxW
'Green Blue Chemical' by Glen Onwin (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 @royalscottishacad.bsky.social
The concluding paragraph of Greg Thomas's review of 'Manifold' in the June issue of Art Monthly.
@gregchthomas.bsky.social / @artmonthly.bsky.social
uniformbooks.co.uk/manifoldonline.php
Use them to propel a tiny carriage
From Greg Thomas's review of 'Manifold: Colin Sackett, publishing 1984–2024':
"Manifold is a treasure trove of the art of the printed page that tracks a crucial period when its centuries-old hold on text transmission has been loosened, freeing perhaps both the word and the codex."
A new poem card for @essencepress.bsky.social, *restlessnest*.
Buy for £3 at link below or DM me xx
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
A book shelf covered in books and lined with small art objects. In the middle of the top shelf is the latest Oo Press poem, which is two brackets containing the text ‘hulls horns moons’
Spot the latest Oo Press (@gregcthomas.bluesky.social) poem-object ( )
Your brackets are in the post xx
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