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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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 🧡
This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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 🧡
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
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October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
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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...
Read writer @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here 👉 bit.ly/meeting-poin...
September 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
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...
@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...
‘I am Iron Bard’: Edwin Morgan, Concrete Poetry and the Glasgow High Rises - The Bottle Imp
In 1964, Edwin Morgan wrote a concrete poem in homage to the nineteenth-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a bridge-shaped graphic verse probably intended to mimic Brunel’s design for the Clift...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“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...
@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...
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...
Heatwave - Books from Scotland
booksfromscotland.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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...
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...
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
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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
August 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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
www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issue
August 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
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...
Three centenaries, three tricky characters. An interesting commission this one....
booksfromscotland.com/2025/07/cent...
July 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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...
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
New poem print, *asemic : azure*, available at Oo-press.com/poem-prints. £35 incl. postage 🌎
July 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
There's two of these left if folks would like one....head to Oo-press.com or DM me to buy xx
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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 😍
July 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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 🌎
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
New poem print, *asemic : azure*, available at Oo-press.com/poem-prints. £35 incl. postage 🌎
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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.
July 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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.
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Highlights from the Dom Sylvester Houédard show at Estorick this weekend. Laminated text collages and typestracts 💜 ❤️
March 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
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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
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
Glen Onwin: science and magic | Art UK
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June 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
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
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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
@gregchthomas.bsky.social / @artmonthly.bsky.social
uniformbooks.co.uk/manifoldonline.php
June 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
@gregchthomas.bsky.social / @artmonthly.bsky.social
uniformbooks.co.uk/manifoldonline.php
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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."
"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."
Art Monthly, Issue 487, June 2025
• Liliane Lijn interviewed by Chris Clarke
• Class Distinction – Morgan Quaintance
• Jasper Marsalis – Profile by Michael Kurtz
• Letters from Warsaw and Milan – Nick Thurston • Leonardo Caffo
+ news, views, reviews and more…
• Liliane Lijn interviewed by Chris Clarke
• Class Distinction – Morgan Quaintance
• Jasper Marsalis – Profile by Michael Kurtz
• Letters from Warsaw and Milan – Nick Thurston • Leonardo Caffo
+ news, views, reviews and more…
May 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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."
"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...
Buy for £3 at link below or DM me xx
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
May 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
A new poem card for @essencepress.bsky.social, *restlessnest*.
Buy for £3 at link below or DM me xx
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
Buy for £3 at link below or DM me xx
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
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Spot the latest Oo Press (@gregcthomas.bluesky.social) poem-object ( )
May 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Spot the latest Oo Press (@gregcthomas.bluesky.social) poem-object ( )
Your brackets are in the post xx
I absolutely adore this new Oo Press poem by @gregchthomas.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Your brackets are in the post xx
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@gregchthomas.bsky.social discusses Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks – described by Morgan as “partly documentary/historical, partly aesthetic, partly satirical & partly personal … a Whitmanian reflecting glass of ‘the world' as refracted through one personality.”
www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
Hidden depths: Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks | News & Press | Scottish Art News | Fleming collection
A window into Scottish Art
www.flemingcollection.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@gregchthomas.bsky.social discusses Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks – described by Morgan as “partly documentary/historical, partly aesthetic, partly satirical & partly personal … a Whitmanian reflecting glass of ‘the world' as refracted through one personality.”
www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
There’s a new Oo poem-object in the world.
*parenthesis poem (moons horns hulls)* is a duo of Jesmonite poem-objects cast from 3D-printed originals, with detail in black acrylic paint pen. Posted in a black presentation box. Run of 10.
This has sold out but I thought folks might like to see it
*parenthesis poem (moons horns hulls)* is a duo of Jesmonite poem-objects cast from 3D-printed originals, with detail in black acrylic paint pen. Posted in a black presentation box. Run of 10.
This has sold out but I thought folks might like to see it
May 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
There’s a new Oo poem-object in the world.
*parenthesis poem (moons horns hulls)* is a duo of Jesmonite poem-objects cast from 3D-printed originals, with detail in black acrylic paint pen. Posted in a black presentation box. Run of 10.
This has sold out but I thought folks might like to see it
*parenthesis poem (moons horns hulls)* is a duo of Jesmonite poem-objects cast from 3D-printed originals, with detail in black acrylic paint pen. Posted in a black presentation box. Run of 10.
This has sold out but I thought folks might like to see it