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Greg Thomas (he/him)

@gregchthomas.bsky.social
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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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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 13h
Book here for @gregchthomas.bsky.social 's lunchtime lecture in Edinburgh at @nationalgalleries.bsky.social on Tuesday 6 October. You can book to watch online too. Free but ticketed. festival.forarthistory.org.uk/event/a-home-in-space-edwin-morgans-concrete-visual-and-sound-poetry/
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A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan's Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry - Art History Festival - Association for Art History
Edwin Morgan (1920–2010) is remembered as a lyric poet yet his experiments in dadaist poetics and surrealist collages were equally important. Poet Greg Thomas discusses Morgan’s second life as an avan...
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The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re very pleased to bring you Issue 3 of The Visual Poetry Times! So many great contributors including Lemn Sissay, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, @leiabutler.bsky.social, @gregchthomas.bsky.social & @alecfinlay.bsky.social! Order your copy via www.thepoetrykiosk.com 🗞️📨
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You come downstairs to find the ghost of the mum microwaving a lobster thermidor
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Still a few tickets left for Thursday's Edinburgh launch of A Home in Space by Edwin Morgan @fruitmarket.bsky.social with @gregchthomas.bsky.social @danpower.bsky.social Iona Lee, Hamish Whyte, and myself, all talking visual and sound poetry. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...
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Book Launch: A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan - Fruitmarket
An evening to discover and celebrate the incredible body of visual and sound poetry by Edwin Morgan, much of which is rarely seen.
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Redon vibes x
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social on Edwin Morgan's Colour Poems (they are included in our new volume of Morgan's concrete, visual and sound poetry *A Home in Space* from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social ) www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Upcoming launches - the first one at the Hunterian in Glasgow on 17 September - for this wonderful book 'A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan's Selected Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry' by @essencepress.bsky.social and @gregchthomas.bsky.social published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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A Home in Space: Upcoming Launches and Events
Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless exper…
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our first launch is at the Hunterian in Glasgow on 17 September 6pm. Book your free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-home-in-...
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A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan's Selected Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry
Join us to celebrate the Glasgow launch of A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry of Edwin Morgan
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our rather beautiful Edwin Morgan book is finally making its way out into the world! It has been a great experience to work with @gregchthomas.bsky.social and @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on this. Here is a box of the books I have ready for our first launch in Glasgow. We'd love to see you there.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 03/09/2026
“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...
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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 Clifton Suspension Bridge. The piece was created for a special, Brunel-themed issue of the little magazine Link, an important forum for the early circulation of concrete […]
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That means he ate the right amount and won't die, clever king
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New Oo postcards. *Blossom Blanket* and *Blossom Blanket (detail)* by Vik Shirley. £7 incl postage anywhere. Buy here: oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I recently bought a couple of these gorgeous things and you might like to do so too.
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey pal weirdly I was asked for this exact same article by someone else recently. I thought I had a scan but I can't find it! I would try contacting the national library of Scotland, who I believe have the copy I saw gx
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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congratulations Tom Bailey and Zainab Imran, winners of the 2026 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award! 💚🎉
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Launch events! edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'm selling some beautiful photoprints and woodblock prints by Robin Gillanders and Gary Hincks to raise money for the first book on Ian Hamilton Finlay's collaborators. All at affordable prices! Visit below and consider making a purchase. And please repost! Xx oo-press.com/fundraising-...
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I rarely go on bluesky but am jumping on this one after seeing @atarbuck.bsky.social's trio. Describe yourself in three characters.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 09/07/2026
“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...
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Greg Thomas on Edwin Morgan: ‘He nudged Scottish literature into the modern world’
Sonnets and poems were the literary bread and butter of Scotland’s late Makar, Edwin Morgan. But as Allan Radcliffe discovers, a new publication shows that his
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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-...
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Third Force News @thirdforcenews.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Probably yes. Harry is one of the contributors
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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...
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This will be a fascinating and beautiful book, and an essential addition to the work on Ian Hamilton Finlay - well worth supporting.
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New Oo poem object for sale: plant-pot poem (greenisland/landisgreen). £40 incl postage anywhere. A run of 20. Oo-press.com/poem-objects
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The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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 ⬇️
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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...
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Thank you Sarah!
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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...
Image shows a work by Ian Hamilton Finlay text carved into stones laid in the landscape.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/03/2026
“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...
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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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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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
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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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
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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“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
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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...
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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...
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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...
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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!
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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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 🧡
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
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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!
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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
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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 03/09/2025
“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...
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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...
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28/08/2025
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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Heatwave - Books from Scotland
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
One left! DM me if you would like it
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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
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