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.
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
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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
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...
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 🌎
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
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...
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
Next month! Part of the talk series connected to the Ian Hamilton Finlay show at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Modern Two. Hope to see some of you there. www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/i...
April 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Next month! Part of the talk series connected to the Ian Hamilton Finlay show at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Modern Two. Hope to see some of you there. www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/i...
There's a new Oo thing for the Spring Equinox.
*sun through trees (counting poem)*
Screenprint in lemon yellow and pale forest green. A run of ten. 42 x 29cm
£35 including postage anywhere.
oo-press.com/poem-prints/
xx
*sun through trees (counting poem)*
Screenprint in lemon yellow and pale forest green. A run of ten. 42 x 29cm
£35 including postage anywhere.
oo-press.com/poem-prints/
xx
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
There's a new Oo thing for the Spring Equinox.
*sun through trees (counting poem)*
Screenprint in lemon yellow and pale forest green. A run of ten. 42 x 29cm
£35 including postage anywhere.
oo-press.com/poem-prints/
xx
*sun through trees (counting poem)*
Screenprint in lemon yellow and pale forest green. A run of ten. 42 x 29cm
£35 including postage anywhere.
oo-press.com/poem-prints/
xx
Powercuts. Abstract representations of national power grid blackouts by Nicky Melville.
March 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Powercuts. Abstract representations of national power grid blackouts by Nicky Melville.
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 💜 ❤️
New article on Dom Sylvester Houédard's visual poetry up @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/sto...
March 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New article on Dom Sylvester Houédard's visual poetry up @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/sto...
Last two of Joe Devlin's dog ear composition Oo postcards. Get em at link below for £5 incl postage anywhere 🌎 or DM me xx
oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Last two of Joe Devlin's dog ear composition Oo postcards. Get em at link below for £5 incl postage anywhere 🌎 or DM me xx
oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
My author copies of Spires/Spines, poems & objects from 2009-12, have arrived. Thanks Paperview Books/Sal! There'll be a tiny few for sale at the creative conversations event with Nicky Melville at Glasgow Uni memorial chapel today. Or go to paperviewbooks.pt/books/spires...
February 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My author copies of Spires/Spines, poems & objects from 2009-12, have arrived. Thanks Paperview Books/Sal! There'll be a tiny few for sale at the creative conversations event with Nicky Melville at Glasgow Uni memorial chapel today. Or go to paperviewbooks.pt/books/spires...
Contemporary painters & sculptors influenced by Bonnard @ Ingleby Gallery *Wings of a Butterfly* group show
February 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Contemporary painters & sculptors influenced by Bonnard @ Ingleby Gallery *Wings of a Butterfly* group show
Publication klaxon 📯📢📣
Two new Oo poem-postcards! @atarbuck.bsky.social. *nymph's warning*, and Brandon Logan, *Latterly Liked*.
£6 for both incl. postage anywhere. Or £5 each.
Get them at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems or DM me!
Two new Oo poem-postcards! @atarbuck.bsky.social. *nymph's warning*, and Brandon Logan, *Latterly Liked*.
£6 for both incl. postage anywhere. Or £5 each.
Get them at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems or DM me!
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Publication klaxon 📯📢📣
Two new Oo poem-postcards! @atarbuck.bsky.social. *nymph's warning*, and Brandon Logan, *Latterly Liked*.
£6 for both incl. postage anywhere. Or £5 each.
Get them at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems or DM me!
Two new Oo poem-postcards! @atarbuck.bsky.social. *nymph's warning*, and Brandon Logan, *Latterly Liked*.
£6 for both incl. postage anywhere. Or £5 each.
Get them at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems or DM me!
Three of these left - head to oo-press.com/poem-objects to buy xx
January 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Three of these left - head to oo-press.com/poem-objects to buy xx
There's a new Oo poem in the world.
*Little Cloud* is a poem-object in blue jesmonite with laser-etched lettering in-filled with white acrylic paint-pen. A poem-portent of sorts, or neo-new-age Hamsa.
Run of 20. £10 including postage anywhere. Link to buy in replies.
*Little Cloud* is a poem-object in blue jesmonite with laser-etched lettering in-filled with white acrylic paint-pen. A poem-portent of sorts, or neo-new-age Hamsa.
Run of 20. £10 including postage anywhere. Link to buy in replies.
January 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There's a new Oo poem in the world.
*Little Cloud* is a poem-object in blue jesmonite with laser-etched lettering in-filled with white acrylic paint-pen. A poem-portent of sorts, or neo-new-age Hamsa.
Run of 20. £10 including postage anywhere. Link to buy in replies.
*Little Cloud* is a poem-object in blue jesmonite with laser-etched lettering in-filled with white acrylic paint-pen. A poem-portent of sorts, or neo-new-age Hamsa.
Run of 20. £10 including postage anywhere. Link to buy in replies.
Riverever. October 2024. Screenprint, 42 x 29cm. Run of 20 in turquoise on white. £35 including postage. Buy here: oo-press.com/poem-prints
January 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Riverever. October 2024. Screenprint, 42 x 29cm. Run of 20 in turquoise on white. £35 including postage. Buy here: oo-press.com/poem-prints
There's six of @joedevlin.bsky.social's beautiful dogear compositions left. Get em!
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
January 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's six of @joedevlin.bsky.social's beautiful dogear compositions left. Get em!
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
Down to the last two of Ilana Halperin's divine lava bomb postcards. Get em here for £5 incl postage anywhere:
www.oo-press.com/postcard-poems.
Or £7.50 for this plus @joedevlin.bsky.social's dogear composition... Xx
www.oo-press.com/postcard-poems.
Or £7.50 for this plus @joedevlin.bsky.social's dogear composition... Xx
January 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Down to the last two of Ilana Halperin's divine lava bomb postcards. Get em here for £5 incl postage anywhere:
www.oo-press.com/postcard-poems.
Or £7.50 for this plus @joedevlin.bsky.social's dogear composition... Xx
www.oo-press.com/postcard-poems.
Or £7.50 for this plus @joedevlin.bsky.social's dogear composition... Xx
Wonderful poem post this morning from India: postcards from MP Pratheesh. Recommend.
December 16, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Wonderful poem post this morning from India: postcards from MP Pratheesh. Recommend.