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Pam Thompson

@pamthompson240.bsky.social

Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography. Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press). Hawthornden Fellow.

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Sunset, palm tree, jogger - Rethymnon

30.06.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Laura. Youโ€™re a gem too xx

14.06.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks Josie. Email me for details at pamthompson240@yahoo.co.uk x

05.06.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Laura. It was great to see you there. You can email me to buy by PayPal or bank transfer. X

05.06.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Review by Gary Day of "Sub/urban Legends" by Pam Thompson Brilliant, disorientating, splendidly polyphonic: these poems provoke, puzzle, baffle and delight the reader. Each one bears re-reading, not...

Thanks to Gary Day for this great review

everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...

04.06.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On Pam Thompsonโ€™s โ€˜Edvard Munch in Haverfordwestโ€™ It would be difficult not to like Pam Thompsonโ€™s poetry, because it has both immediacy and depth.

A piece by me on a fantastic poem by @pamthompson240.bsky.social -
matthewpaulpoetry.substack.com/p/on-pam-tho...

20.05.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for reposting this also, John

04.06.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for reposting, John

04.06.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More generosity from @matthewepaul.bsky.social

02.06.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you

02.06.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Matthew

02.06.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A portrait of a room at 4am from the perspective of an ochre settee?

It must be #Setteeday, for here is @pamthompson240.bsky.social attempting while/by describing the nigh impossible:

intuition control intuition continuous
and confusing
as hard as I try

#GhostFurnitureCatalogue

(3/3)

22.03.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

John, Iโ€™ve just seen this. Thank you so much. It means a lot x

04.04.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My workshop for @poetrybusiness next week also @lauriebolger.bsky.social

22.02.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A few places left on both these wonderful, inspiring workshops - get yours at the link below!

@lauriebolger.bsky.social
@pamthompson240.bsky.social

22.02.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great series

15.02.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done, Vicky xx

13.02.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A collection of plates of similar sizes yet with different patterns and coloyrs all with an eye painted on the centre

A collection of plates of similar sizes yet with different patterns and coloyrs all with an eye painted on the centre

"Lover's Eyes" painted plates by contemporary artist Susannah Carson #WomensArt

06.02.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 419    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Well done! X

03.02.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Terrific review. Congratulations Wendy!

25.01.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic, Sarah. Have a wonderful evening xx

22.01.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Photo of a sculpture in a rural location created to look like a woman lying on the ground, as if sleeping on her side with only the right half of her body exposed, the ground and sculpture is covered in frost and snow and a row of bare tees is to the background

Photo of a sculpture in a rural location created to look like a woman lying on the ground, as if sleeping on her side with only the right half of her body exposed, the ground and sculpture is covered in frost and snow and a row of bare tees is to the background

'Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture (shown in winter), by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #womensart

13.01.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 263    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
How To Open A New Book

How To Open A New Book

How To Open A New Book ๐Ÿ–ค

11.01.2025 06:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend The story of the extraordinary friendship between the celebrated and much-admired Scottish director Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell.

Completely spellbound by the documentary Bill Douglas: My Best Friend. Pioneering working class filmmaker from a Scottish pit village. So much to say about about love between two men in the 1950s, autobiography and filmmaking and about class. Beautifully shot too. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

04.01.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Painting featuring a single blue flower with white and yellow centre in a small glass on a bluish grey surface and against a pinky white background

Painting featuring a single blue flower with white and yellow centre in a small glass on a bluish grey surface and against a pinky white background

Blue Morning Glory, 1938 by Georgia Oโ€™Keeffe #womensart

04.01.2025 06:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 450    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I come from the United States. We disown our shadow. We disown it as a country. We do not own what we're doing in the world that is illegal, aggressive, inhuman. And as people, we need to own our shadows. Art can help us do that.

โ€”Marie Howe

04.01.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Good you have by more energy, Hannah. What an unusual form.

04.01.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like this Jenny

31.12.2024 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seasonโ€™s greetings, John x

24.12.2024 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DEATH OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter (Moon), sharing the first foot of each line with a monometer Spenserian sonnet (Sun) and the last foot of each line with a hybrid Shakespearean-Petrarchan sonnet (Stars).

24.12.2024 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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