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Nathan Thompson
Biography
Nathan Thompson was born in Cornwall in 1977. He studied music and musicology at the University of Exeter, where he later lectured part-time, and is currently working on a PhD in Contemporary Poetry and Psychogeography at the University of Salford under Scott Thurston. Now most often to be found somewhere in the English Channel between Jersey (old not New) and Hebden Bridge, he has read his work across the UK and beyond, including at the Poetry Hearings festival in Berlin, The Globe Bookshop in Prague and Berkeley Books in Paris. In 2009 he set up and presented PoAttic, a reading series bringing UK and international poets to Jersey’s Opera House. He has published two full collections with Shearsman Books as well as a number of pamphlets and chapbooks, the most recent of which is …, or The Night Terrors from Oystercatcher Press.
thompson[dot]nathan7[at]gmail[dot]com
Recordings
- Or, the Night Terrors 17
From: …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]
Recorded by Jacqui Johnson at QMUL on 12th August 2013.
- Variations
From: the arboretum towards the beginning [Shearsman 2008]
- Solstice
From: the arboretum towards the beginning [Shearsman 2008]
- A Haunting
From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]
- Ellipse
From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]
- Heresy Hut
From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]
- A Lock of Hair
From: Holes in the Map [Oystercatcher 2010]
- Ship in a Bottle
From: Holes in the Map [Oystercatcher 2010]
- Because They Are Useful
From: the day maybe died… (tributes and torched songs) …Imagining China [Knives Forks & Spoons 2011]
- Spacial Practices
From: The Visitor’s Guest [Shearsman 2011]
- The Visitors Adrift
From: The Visitor’s Guest [Shearsman 2011]
- Or, the Night Terrors 1
from …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]
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- Or, the Night Terrors 21
From: …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]
- Signs 100
From: Signs [These are early versions of poems taken from a work in progress. Other poems from the set can be read online at 3:AM Magazine and The Clearing. Further excerpts can also be read in V+L-A=K 4]
- Signs 93
- Signs 99
Bibliography
Books and chapbooks
- the arboretum towards the beginning (Shearsman, 2008)
- A Haunting (Gratton Street Irregulars, 2010)
- Holes in the Map (Oystercatcher Press, 2010)
- The Visitor’s Guest (Shearsman, 2011)
- the day maybe died… (tributes and torched songs) …Imagining China (Knives Forks & Spoons Press, 2011)
- Questions for Painters (Red Ceilings Press, e-book, 2012)
- … or, The Night Terrors (Oystercatcher Press, 2014)
Work in Progress
- Explorer 9 (a waterproof interactive poem-map of Bodmin Moor)
- Signs
- The Madonna Poems (collaboration with Richard Barrett)
- First & Last (collaboration with Rupert Loydell)
Sample Text
From …, or The Night Terrors
21
or finally draw the fire curtain
invalid file name starring
partners in crime teeth redacted
a curled cigar round
smoke little work down the road tree lined with wolves
testament to your long limbed beauty struck
matches made by heavenly placards
there dipped in and fledhairy textured night knives out the new cat rubbed fat on spit
eyes stare out of feeding
ash flecked dying strangers
effective protest preach to the frightened converted
file nails better to name scratched glass
for the record played backwards
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