West Midlands Group online meet-up

Join the West Midlands Group on Friday 26 September from 1pm to hear from Michael regarding his time as poet-in-residence at the Robert Frost Festival, Key West, Florida.

Michael W. Thomas has published ten collections of poetry, three novels and two collections of short fiction. His most recent poetry collections are Nothing Louche or Bohemian(with Tina Cole) and A Time For Such A Word (both Black Pear Press); his most recent short fiction collection is Sing Ho! Stout Cortez: Novellas and Stories (Black Pear Press); his most recent novel is The Erkeley Shadows (KDP / Swan Village Reporter).  With Simon Fletcher, he edited The Poetry of Worcestershire (Offa’s Press). His work has appeared in Acumen, The Antigonish Review (Canada), The Antioch Review (US), The Cannon’s Mouth, Critical Survey, Crossroads (Poland), Dream Catcher, Etchings (Australia), Irish Studies Review, Irish University Review, Magazine Six (US), Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Times Literary Supplement and Under the Radar, among others. He has reviewed for The London Magazine, Other Poetry and The Times Literary Supplement, and is on the editorial board of Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies (University of Bialystok, Poland). He was long-listed for the National Poetry Competition, 2020 and 2022, and long-listed and short-listed for the Indigo Dreams Spring Poetry Prize, 2023. Michael also runs a poetry blog, The Swan Village Reporter.

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