The Strangest Thankyou by Richard Thomas Out Now!

My debut collection of poems 'The Strangest Thankyou' including such poetic hits as 'Flamingo', 'Soup Chronicle #1' and 'Cold Park Day' is out now via Cultured Llama.

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Richard Thomas’s debut poetry collection embraces the magical and the mundane, the exotic and the everyday, the surreal rooted in reality.
Grand poetic themes of love, death and great lives are cut with surprising twists and playful use of language, shape, form and imagery. The poet seeks ‘an array of wonder’ in “Dig” and spreads his ‘riches’ throughout The Strangest ­Thankyou.

'He has long been one to watch, and with this strong, diverse collection Richard Thomas is now one to read. And re-read.'
- Matt Harvey, host of Radio 4′s Wondermentalist Cabaret

'… happy to work with all kinds of emotions, and to explore the world he finds himself in through both the real and the surreal...'
- Simon Williams, author of Quirks

'...This is a young man’s poetry, exploratory, questioning, concerned with the truth even when apparently far off on a piece of fantasy....'
- James Turner, author of Forgeries

'...He writes poetry with a sense of ­surrealist theatre, poems that are full of surprises...'
- Rose Cook, author of Taking Flight

'...He’s innovative and experimental, bold and witty, a modern poet who carries his learning lightly...'
- John Daniel, author of Missing the Boat, Grownup War and Skinning the Bull

'...Richard Thomas has tuned into a particular resonance of cool, and his poems arise from that. They echo more of the Beat influences – the immediacy of Snyder or Ginsberg...'
- Lucy Lepchani, author of The Beckoning Wild

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