Greg Thomas (he/him)

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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‘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...

“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

Glen Onwin: science and magic | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

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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@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...