Michael’s new poetry collection, Nothing Louche or Bohemian, is published by Black Pear Press, Spring 2025.

Details of the collection, including how to order it from Black Pear Press, appear here.

A miscellany box of memories, intense and disconcerting; a gently encouraging piano teacher; teddy bears that knew better days; tinkling bottle-tags; classroom faces happy, wistful, preoccupied; a district nurse’s long-ago phone call; an assignation beneath a canal bridge; a father’s jokes worn down to the metal.  These and so many other scenes find their places in the landscape of Nothing Louche or Bohemian.  As the collection unfolds, threads are caught, drawn out, found to be markers on the map of what once was—and what, in these pages, lives again…enthralling, troubling, never less than vivid.

‘Tina Cole invokes the landscape of her childhood in poems seething with rich imagery and forceful language.’ – Helen Ivory

‘Michael W. Thomas’s poems are rich with the details of past and present lives.  They explore the widest – and wildest – possibilities of those lives with passion and humour.’
– Alison Brackenbury