Name: Creative Conversations: Greg Thomas
Start: 2025-02-24T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-24T14:00:00+00:00
Location: University Chapel

Poet, author, critic and arts journalist Greg Thomas in Conversation
About this Event

Greg Thomas is a poet, artist, and writer based in Glasgow, with a particular interest in making and writing about concrete and visual poetries. He wrote the first book on concrete poetry in Britain and has several published collections of poetry including:

SPIRES/SPINES. PAPERVIEW, 2024.
A collection of poems and poem-objects from 2009-13, including works on found wood, stone, and glass, letter-transfer poems, acetone transfers, lino-tile poems, and felt-tip pen poems.
THRESHHOLDS. TIMGLASET, 2023.
A new collection of short and visually oriented poems, a sequel of sorts to particulates. Including the sequence "the skin of the sky: poems in the Faroe Islands." "In Greg Thomas’s exquisite new collection, meaning emerges at the threshold of sound and sense, breath and form, play and sincerity." Hanna Tuulikki.
. POEM ATLAS, 2023.
My first full collection of poem-objects. Candles and wax sculptures in bees' and soya wax with alkyd and vegetable colouring and lettering in acrylic paint pen. "There’s imagination and a subtle wit everywhere — in the making of the objects and in all the ways the book finds of showing them in action. Precarious, funny and moving, Candle Poems is a perfect small monument, to candles, to the bees and to us." Peter Manson.
PARTICULATES. TIMGLASET, 2022.
A collection of short poems and visually oriented poems mostly from 2021-22, including the sequence "on book on drone on barra." written on Barra in September 2021. "This quivering book! Each poem feels like a syntactic mirage: walking into a room and seeing dust particles in the light....poetry at its unwilting and unprogrammatic best." Colin Herd.

Thomas's poetry often touches on themes of environmental crisis and the politics of climate change, as well as ways of communicating with and being in the natural world. He is also a freelance arts journalist, with bylines in The Guardian, Art Monthly, Scottish Art News, and other titles.