Michael's new poetry collection,

Nothing Louche or Bohemian, is a collaboration with poet Tina Cole.  It is published by Black Pear Press, Spring 2025.
Details of the collection, including how to order it, appear here.

Michael's poetry collection,

A Time for Such a Word, is published by Black Pear Press, Spring 2024.
Details of the collection, including how to order it, appear here.

Michael's short fiction collection,

Sing Ho! Stout Cortez: Novellas and Stories, is published by Black Pear Press, Autumn 2021.
Details of the collection, including how to order it, appear here.

Michael's poetry collection,

Under Smoky Light, is published by Offa’s Press, Autumn 2020.
Details of the collection, including how to order it, appear here.

Michael's poetry collection,

The Stations of the Day, is published by Black Pear Press, Autumn 2019.
Details of the collection, including how to order it, appear here.

Full details of Michael’s Black Pear Press titles appear here.

Michael Wyndham Thomas is an Irish-British writer and lived in Canada for a number of years. He now lives in Worcestershire. He is an internationally-known poet, fiction-writer, dramatist and musician. His poetry, prose and scripts have appeared in Critical Survey, English, The English Review, Fire, The Interpreter’s House, Iron, The London Magazine, Other Poetry, Pennine Platform, Stand, Staple and The Swansea Review (UK), as well as Poetry Salzburg Review and The National Gazette (Tirana), Crossroads (Poland), Alive!, The Antigonish Review, From the Horse’s Mouth, Grain and Reflections (Canada), Etchings (Australia), The Black Mountain Review and Irish University Review (Ireland) and The Antioch Review, Magazine Six, Modern Haiku, Muscadine Lines and The Secret of Salt (USA). He also reviews for such publications as The Times Literary Supplement, Crossroads (University of Bialystok, Poland), The London Magazine, Under the Radar and The Journal of American Haiku.
Between 2004 and 2009, Michael was poet-in-residence at the annual Robert Frost Poetry Festival, Key West, Florida. He retains the title in an honorary capacity. He is now also Poet-at-Large in the Navy of the Conch Republic of Key West. Other events outside the UK include readings at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and at Tampere University, Finland. Within the UK, he has read at Poetry Library events (the South Bank, London) and has given such keynote addresses as the one for Poems Are Being Written, a conference on contemporary poetry at the University of Portsmouth. He has also given readings at the Warwick Words Festival, The Ledbury Poetry Festival and at the annual Ways With Words Festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.

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Nothing Louche or Bohemian

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A Time for Such a Word

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The Erkeley Shadows

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book publications

Nothing Louche or Bohemian (Black Pear Press, 2025).

A Time for Such a Word (Black Pear Press, 2024).

The Erkeley Shadows (Black Pear Press, 2023).

Sing Ho! Stout Cortez: Novellas and Stories (Black Pear Press, 2021).

Under Smoky Light (Offa’s Press, 2020).

The Stations of the Day (Black Pear Press, 2019).

The Portswick Imp (Black Pear Press, 2018).

Early and Late (Cairn Time Press, 2018).

Come To Pass (Oversteps Books, 2015).

The Girl from Midfoxfields (Black Pear Press, 2014).

Batmans Hill, South Staffs (Flipped Eye International, 2013).

Pilgrims at the White Horizon (Theaker’s Paperback Library / TQF, 2013).

Port Winston Mulberry (Littlejohn and Bray, 2010).

The Mercury Annual (Theaker’s Paperback Library / TQF, 2009).

God’s Machynlleth and Other Poems (Flarestack, 1996)

“Since 2004, Dr. Michael Wyndham Thomas has helped develop and spearhead the workshops for the Key West Robert Frost Poetry Festival. His hands-on teaching skills make poetry exciting for even the novice; his depth of knowledge is truly impressive.

Because he has endeared himself to everyone associated with the festival—and to many others who live on this island at the southernmost point in the United States—Michael is fondly referred to as the Poet at Large in the Conch Republic Navy.

With heartfelt thanks from The Robert Frost Poetry Festival Committee, Key West, Florida.”

-Barbara Bowers, writer and journalist, member of the Festival Committee.

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michaelw.thomas@btinternet.com

phone

07714 341215

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