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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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Two new poem-postcards for sale at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems: Snowdrops by Tessa Berring and SOLID BLISS by Kitty Doherty. ยฃ5 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

28.09.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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. ยฃ5 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

28.09.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Artists Helen Douglas and Jake Harvey invite viewers into a โ€œcompressed universeโ€ in their exhibition 'Meeting Point: within the Lewisian' at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist.

Read writer @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here ๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/meeting-poin...

23.09.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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17.09.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜I am Iron Bardโ€™: 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 Brunelโ€™s design for the Clift...

โ€œthe word Metropolis โ€“ even as I type it here I feel it โ€“ stirs my bloodโ€

@gregchthomas.bsky.social on how Glasgowโ€™s post-war high-rise construction gave โ€˜concrete poetryโ€™ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan
#SkyscraperDay #concretepoetry
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am...

03.09.2025 11:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Heatwave - Books from Scotland

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...

28.08.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One left! DM me if you would like it

26.08.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Oo Press poem-object, *bookshelf poem (as the dust)*. Polished grey jesmonite in custom made presentation box. ยฃ35 including postage anywhere. Buy at Oo-press.com/poem-objects or DM me xx

26.08.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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

13.08.2025 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

31.07.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's two of these left if folks would like one....head to Oo-press.com or DM me to buy xx

21.07.2025 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿ˜

19.07.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New poem print, *asemic : azure*, available at Oo-press.com/poem-prints. ยฃ35 incl. postage ๐ŸŒŽ

19.07.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Itโ€™s been a record year for purple emperors in the UK. How serendipitous to have published @gregchthomas.bsky.socialโ€™a minimal butterfly poem in the summer issue therefore! ๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒ€ Issue 10 on sale now.

18.07.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Highlights from the Dom Sylvester Houรฉdard show at Estorick this weekend. Laminated text collages and typestracts ๐Ÿ’œ โค๏ธ

10.03.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. ยฃ5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and Em Filtness's *sparkles of time*

Oo-press.com/postcard-poems

20.06.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿช„

Read this artist in focus by @gregchthomas.bsky.socialโ€ฌ on Glen Onwin ๐Ÿ‘‰ buff.ly/J1THCxW

'Green Blue Chemical' by Glen Onwin (b.1947) ยฉ the artist. ๐Ÿ“ท @royalscottishacad.bsky.socialโ€ฌ

14.06.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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

02.06.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Use them to propel a tiny carriage

01.06.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From Greg Thomas's review of 'Manifold: Colin Sackett, publishing 1984โ€“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."

28.05.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A new poem card for @essencepress.bsky.social, *restlessnest*.

Buy for ยฃ3 at link below or DM me xx

www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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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 โ€˜hulls horns moonsโ€™

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 โ€˜hulls horns moonsโ€™

Spot the latest Oo Press (@gregcthomas.bluesky.social) poem-object ( )

27.05.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your brackets are in the post xx

26.05.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’œ โค๏ธ

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Hidden depths: Edwin Morganโ€™s scrapbooks | News & Press | Scottish Art News | Fleming collection A window into Scottish Art

@gregchthomas.bsky.social discusses Edwin Morganโ€™s scrapbooks โ€“ described by Morgan as โ€œpartly documentary/historical, partly aesthetic, partly satirical & partly personal โ€ฆ a Whitmanian reflecting glass of โ€˜the world' as refracted through one personality.โ€
www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...

20.05.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thereโ€™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

20.05.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bucolicky

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Image of four postcards containing minimalist poems.

Image of four postcards containing minimalist poems.

Glad to share new work in the latest less-series from
@essencepress.bsky.social. Grateful to Julie for her thoughtful curation and exquisite formatting of the series. Happy, too, to be in the wonderful company of @gregchthomas.bsky.social, Harry Josephine Giles, and Julie Johnstone.

11.05.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Issue 2 of Less [series 3]
restlessnest by @gregchthomas.bsky.social
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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less journal - Julie Johnstone less[series 3 | 2025-] Introducing a new series of less, and the first four issues. Each issue of less is devoted to a single new work by one poet or artist and is published in an edition of 150. The ...

On this delightful spring day here in Edinburgh I am happy to introduce a new series of less. The first four in the new series feature the work of @jungcharlotte.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social Harry Josephine Giles & myself.
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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