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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
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    From: …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]

Recorded by Jacqui Johnson at QMUL on 12th August 2013.

  • Variations
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    From: the arboretum towards the beginning [Shearsman 2008]

  • Solstice
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    From: the arboretum towards the beginning [Shearsman 2008]

  • A Haunting
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    From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]   

  • Ellipse
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    From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]   

  • Heresy Hut
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    From: A Haunting [Gratton Street Irregulars 2010]   

  • A Lock of Hair
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    From: Holes in the Map [Oystercatcher 2010]  

  • Ship in a Bottle
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    From: Holes in the Map [Oystercatcher 2010]  

  • Because They Are Useful
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    From: the day maybe died… (tributes and torched songs) …Imagining China [Knives Forks & Spoons 2011]

  • Spacial Practices
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    From: The Visitor’s Guest [Shearsman 2011]   

  • The Visitors Adrift
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    From: The Visitor’s Guest [Shearsman 2011]   

  • Or, the Night Terrors 1
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    from …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]

  • Or, the Night Terrors 2
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  • Or, the Night Terrors 21
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    From: …, or The Night Terrors [Oystercatcher 2014]

  • Signs 100
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    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
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  • Signs 99
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Bibliography

Books and chapbooks

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 fled

hairy 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
history leaves
                              a winter dry ice hides with phantoms

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