David Toms
@daithitoms.bsky.social
Writer. Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Arts Council Ireland Literature Bursary Award 2023. Maddock Fellow at Marsh's Library, 2024. New work coming soon. 🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
https://davidtoms.substack.com
https://davidtoms.substack.com
Few journals have done more for me and my writing during the past decade, so it is really special to be included in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social which you can order now
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Few journals have done more for me and my writing during the past decade, so it is really special to be included in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social which you can order now
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
Fish ('n' chip) Friday. Homemade request for the birthday girl
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fish ('n' chip) Friday. Homemade request for the birthday girl
Really impressed with the guy who did this as a nixer for us. It's a 19th c mirror from Paris that my wife got as a teenager and has been dragging around for the best part of two decades. Finally up! The plaster is very fragile but still mostly on the frame which is a minor miracle.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Really impressed with the guy who did this as a nixer for us. It's a 19th c mirror from Paris that my wife got as a teenager and has been dragging around for the best part of two decades. Finally up! The plaster is very fragile but still mostly on the frame which is a minor miracle.
And straight from Halloween over to Christmas.
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
And straight from Halloween over to Christmas.
Brachiosaurus or Stegosaurus?
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Brachiosaurus or Stegosaurus?
Carved my first ever turnip jack o'lantern and I gotta say, it's creepy AF.
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Carved my first ever turnip jack o'lantern and I gotta say, it's creepy AF.
Walking around near the old silver mines in Kongsberg this morning, including fenced off mine shaft entry points (first pic).
#industrialheritage
#norway
#industrialheritage
#norway
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Walking around near the old silver mines in Kongsberg this morning, including fenced off mine shaft entry points (first pic).
#industrialheritage
#norway
#industrialheritage
#norway
My dad's fifth anniversary today. 2020 was an appalling year. I've a new poem about grief and its delays in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social journal which you can get here:
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My dad's fifth anniversary today. 2020 was an appalling year. I've a new poem about grief and its delays in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social journal which you can get here:
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
Northern Lights over Kongsberg as seen from our apartment late last night.
October 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Northern Lights over Kongsberg as seen from our apartment late last night.
There's not much time left for old Tom Cromwell...
These books have been a fairly constant companion during a year I've been mainly too busy and tired to do a lot of reading and I'll be sorry for it to end.
These books have been a fairly constant companion during a year I've been mainly too busy and tired to do a lot of reading and I'll be sorry for it to end.
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There's not much time left for old Tom Cromwell...
These books have been a fairly constant companion during a year I've been mainly too busy and tired to do a lot of reading and I'll be sorry for it to end.
These books have been a fairly constant companion during a year I've been mainly too busy and tired to do a lot of reading and I'll be sorry for it to end.
Finally got a shelf up for the cozy corner. Just in time for the autumn/winter.
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Finally got a shelf up for the cozy corner. Just in time for the autumn/winter.
So the thing i don't understand about this thinking is.... If there are no people working in businesses at entry level, who will there be to learn the business and progress through it? Who is there to manage? Why have a CEO at all? I'm the CEO of this one neat AI trick?
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
So the thing i don't understand about this thinking is.... If there are no people working in businesses at entry level, who will there be to learn the business and progress through it? Who is there to manage? Why have a CEO at all? I'm the CEO of this one neat AI trick?
Morning among the stacks.
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Morning among the stacks.
Iconic shit at halftime from Jonatan Mælhum of Asker Aliens against Kongsberg tonight. League of Ireland grade stuff.
September 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Iconic shit at halftime from Jonatan Mælhum of Asker Aliens against Kongsberg tonight. League of Ireland grade stuff.
By a circuitous route, I've ended up with this recording of Bartok conducted by Bernstein that was from the record collection of Peter Opsvik, designer of the famous tripp trapp kids chair, among others.
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
By a circuitous route, I've ended up with this recording of Bartok conducted by Bernstein that was from the record collection of Peter Opsvik, designer of the famous tripp trapp kids chair, among others.
Went along to my first Kongsberg Miners game last night. In the absence of top level football in the town, I guess I'm a basketball fan now.
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Went along to my first Kongsberg Miners game last night. In the absence of top level football in the town, I guess I'm a basketball fan now.
Reaching great heights in my career.
September 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reaching great heights in my career.
In a vain attempt to retain some bit of hope, I'm reading this excellent exploration of ideas about peace, nonviolence, antimilitarism, and conscientious objection. The title translates roughly as "war is contempt for life". It comes from Nordahl Grieg's poem "Til Ungdommen" from 1936.
September 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In a vain attempt to retain some bit of hope, I'm reading this excellent exploration of ideas about peace, nonviolence, antimilitarism, and conscientious objection. The title translates roughly as "war is contempt for life". It comes from Nordahl Grieg's poem "Til Ungdommen" from 1936.
We painted in our apartment!
September 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We painted in our apartment!
On first looking into Pfister's Milo.
September 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
On first looking into Pfister's Milo.
Is there anything as exciting as a man standing in front of a massive screen awaiting exit poll information? First exit polls from the early-voting results. (in Norway, you can vote several weeks in advance countrywide). Around 2 million people cast their votes in the past few weeks.
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Is there anything as exciting as a man standing in front of a massive screen awaiting exit poll information? First exit polls from the early-voting results. (in Norway, you can vote several weeks in advance countrywide). Around 2 million people cast their votes in the past few weeks.
Reading this tonight to keep some small bit of hope alive!
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reading this tonight to keep some small bit of hope alive!