Poetry Collections:
Birdwatching in Wartime
Renovation
Country of Lost Sons
Anthologies:
From the Fishouse
Books
Jeffrey Thomson is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, two limited-edition art books, and the co-editor of an anthology of emerging poets.
Thomson's newest books are Birdwatching in Wartime, a poetry collection from Carnegie Mellon, and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resond, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great.
Also recent is Renovation (from Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005) and The Country of Lost Sons (Parlor, 2004).
His limited-edition books are Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge (from RopeWalk Press) and Blind Desire, a limited edition artist's book with photographs by Dennis Marisco produced by Dionysus Press in association with The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA. The Halo Brace, his first poetry collection, was also produced in a limited edition hand made book with original wood cut cover art.
Forthcoming Books
In 2009-10, a collection of poems co-translated from the Spanish of the Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores will be out from Green Integer Books.
He is also working on a new collection of poems called 5 Satans and a collection of nonfiction essys (a mix of critical and creative pieces) called Landscape with Human Figure: Essays on Poetry and Place