It’s 1972, the year the Ambassador finally closes, the theater’s cathedral arches rigid in the fall’s afternoon gloom, asphalt a small galaxy of shattered glass and graffiti duct- working walls, and What’s New Pussycat? still sparkles on the marquee—as if the world’s a many-roomed mansion split between paisley and pinstripe, a bacchanal and carnival that […]
When Ruan Pienaar lines up the kick, his eyes down towards the small parcel he is trying to deliver over the posts and into the heart of the south, his thin, handsome face its own arena of concentration, the pub goes hushed, a few hard shushes silencing the chatter of those not paying enough attention […]
Jeffrey Thomson’s latest collection of poems, The Belfast Notebooks, was published by Salmon Poetry in April 2017. His other recent books are the memoir, Fragile (Red Mountain Press, 2015), and The Poems of Catullus: An Annotated Translation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His the author of four previous books of poems, including The New Faces of Belfast […]
On March 5, 2009, From the Fishouse recorded a reading by poet Jeffrey Thomson at Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine. This is the full reading.
Jeffrey Thomson reading “Landscape with Swelling and Hives,” live at Bates College, March 5, 2009.
Jeffrey Thomson reading “Landscape with Urban Elephants,” live at Bates College, March 5, 2009.
Jeffrey Thomson reading “those drawn with a very fine camel’s hair brush,” live at Bates College, March 5, 2009.
Jeffrey Thomson reading “those that are trained,” live at Bates College, March 5, 2009.