I rarely go on bluesky but am jumping on this one after seeing @atarbuck.bsky.social's trio. Describe yourself in three characters.

Dr Malice@atarbuck.bsky.social · 3w ago

Describe yourself in three characters.

“He was an advocate of the new, & that made him stand out in a Scottish modernist literary milieu where there was a kind of gruff, backwards-looking impulse” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on A HOME IN SPACE, a new collection of Edwin Morgan’s concrete, visual & sound #poetry list.co.uk/news/greg-th...

Sharing news of an amazing sounding conference co-organized by @india_oswin. I was too chaotic to share the CFP in time but if you're interested in material and visual poetics, get a spot at the link and head to UCL www.eventbrite.com/e/reframing-...

This month’s TFN magazine asks: “after the election, will the sector’s voice be heard?” - we hear from Sarah Redmond of @alliancescot.bsky.social @carorance.bsky.social of @foescot.bsky.social @gregchthomas.bsky.social of @humanistsociety.bsky.social and many more Read it all here:

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If you like the sound of this please do donate. I understand it's a hard time economically for lots of us and I'm hugely grateful for the support I've received so far. Even small donations are hugely appreciated and you'll get your name in the book! Head to www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

This will be a fascinating and beautiful book, and an essential addition to the work on Ian Hamilton Finlay - well worth supporting.

Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

New Oo poem object for sale: plant-pot poem (greenisland/landisgreen). £40 incl postage anywhere. A run of 20. Oo-press.com/poem-objects

Please take a look at Greg’s crowdfunding campaign to support the publication of ‘Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay’, which will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, a collaborator, a friend, and sometimes an adversary ⬇️

Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

I'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

Publishing crowdfunder: 'Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay' will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, collaborator, friend, and sometimes an adversary. Edited by @gregchthomas.bsky.social info & fundraiser link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

“On a wet and wintry afternoon in January, with the Braan in spate, licking the edges of the lower walkways, the work brings a kind of mammalian warmth to the dark and damp” @gregchthomas.bsky.social on walking Scotland’s Corbenic Poetry Path #poetry artuk.org/discover/sto...

The rhythm of feet: walking Scotland's Corbenic Poetry Path

Greg Thomas takes a closer look at Scotland's Corbenic Poetry Path, a 3.5 km trail in Perth and Kinross scattered with dozens of poems on plinths, benches, standing stones and walls – as well as works...

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Artist Michael Fullerton chatted with @gregchthomas.bsky.social about his new exhibition at the City Art Centre (running until 12 April). They discussed his new portraits of asylum seekers and his career-long focus on screen-printing the historically misunderstood. Read here 👉 bit.ly/4aI1oRb

Keith McIntyre’s new exhibition What Lies Beyond blends Covid isolation in the Hebrides with the digital 'Zoom' aesthetic and Japanese Butoh theatre. This show is a key highlight of this year's RSA 200 celebrations 🥳 read @gregchthomas.bsky.social interview with the artist here: bit.ly/4sbPbv4

“After hours there can be no trespassing, no entry, no press access; DO NOT FORCE THE DOORS.” Peter Liversidge’s playful new work, The Rules of the Library, now looms large over the reading rooms of @natlibscot.bsky.social. Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here: bit.ly/rulesoflib

Lovely post from @gregchthomas.bsky.social at Oo-Press, David Bellingham's "THE SPACE BETWEEN TWO THINGS IS A THIRD THING" available to order here: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...

Fab early offer on A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry by Edwin Morgan coming in June from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Order the book on the @waterstones.bsky.social app or website by 20 Feb and you get 25% off. Enter FEB26 at the check-out. www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb...

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/ Please repost and share!

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/ Please repost and share!

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...

“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...

‘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...

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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...

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Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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