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“This collection of poetry is a surreal, majestic and insightful epic journey – each section picking you up and dropping you deep into the worldly wonder of language. Thomas is so magician-like.”
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“Last night was wonderful. I love hearing you read your poetry. I felt like I was sitting in an in-between world and I’m still there today.”
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“Work that can be dipped in and out of endlessly for continued revelation.”
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"One of the best events I’ve ever been to. I felt completely overwhelmed on every level – intellectual, aesthetic, spiritual, emotional."
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"Just like with your other books I got pulled in, sucked in, till I got light headed."
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“I feel a little bit unsettled as though I have accidentally heard news that wasn’t for me.”
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“Bardic. Your words are so beautifully crafted.”
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“I came across this author for the first time when a long-time friend introduced me to his writing, a quite arduous quest, since his books are not sold in any bookshop.”
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“The writing flashes and sparkles. It’s imaginative and resonant.”
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“Your Arcadia makes me want to vomit Love.”
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“The breadth and breath and stretch and sensuality and audacity of the langage is fabulous.”
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“My neurons feel joyous. I become a sea of everlasting grass. I love this piece. There are parts in this one which make me feel like liquid light.”
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“These were days of endless endless has been the best read I’ve gotten in almost five years.”
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"There are good books out there, but it’s hard to find good poetry … there is depth and textured substance otherworldly in these words and works."
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“Throughout there is a quick and agile intelligence.”
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“Erotic and spiritual.”
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"Delights with restlessly inventive wordplay. A rollicking recasting of deep time traditions into the now."
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“A darkly delicious folklore take on the modern capitalist world. Mystical yet familiar imagery. Best read aloud to yourself from bed on a wintery, hungover Sunday morning.”
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“Escapism, reality, futuristic, eternal – in shades all. Scathing, delightful, transcendent, trippy, sexy and mind bending.”
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“Struck with different hues of awe: the choice of words, the strange images, the invisible cadence, the enthralling prose and the ominous verse.”
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“It felt like treading in an unseen frontier space.”
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“The sense of wonder and vulnerability it conjured.”
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"Finished my first – but certainly not last – read of VSK. A fantastic folk-horror sci-fi espionage tale told through multiple poetic and visual styles. Magick.
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“A very magical experience.”
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“It’s not settling with me … which I love.”
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“I like the trance-like pulse, the machinery, the other-worldly mood. It’s a pagan-techno-acid trip.”
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“This is of a greater magnitude. It’s terrific. It has a restlessness to it and I was not finding space to breathe whilst reading and therefore, the excitement. So beautiful, it escalates. Godspeed!”
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"As usual, stunning poetry and design. Every book by you is a loaded universe."
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“Dense. Dreamy. Disorientating.”
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“This missile … is as real as transcendental / methodical as metaphorical / empirical as ethereal / combustible as clinical / architectural as abstract. Space sorcery that stirs you right in the centre.”
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“Otherworldly genius!”
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“Rare writing of great tenderness for life and the stars.”
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“A magician with a light-footed and interdisciplinary intelligence.”
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“I feel quite dizzied, even overwhelmed. Colourful, baffling, sensual, unexpected, rich and multitudinous.”
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"Every aspect was intoxicating. Absolutely beautiful.”
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“The language takes me somewhere else.”
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"A treasure trove of literary brilliance that deserves to be savored and celebrated by all literature connoisseurs."
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“The writing is sublime. What a ride.”
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"It's as if I've stumbled upon an endless reservoir of thought."
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"Uncomfortably familiar subtext. Spooky. Heartbreaking. Cuts so close. Thank you for this little mind trip. "
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"It’s the work of a madman, but in this day and age I think that’s to be encouraged."
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"I have a feeling I’m going to lose myself in it. When I opened it it felt like the book was part of the story, like a book by Italo Calvino or J.J. Abrams’ ‘S’"
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"Your words take me to the most beautiful and unusual places. I like to take my time, let my mind wander. It's lovely how I can think about a verse so differently on a second read. Honestly, I haven't read much poetry, but I'm finding it more and more enjoyable."
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"A beautiful and wild offering. Hope there will be more to come."
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"... immense scope and lyricism and subtler moments of heartache and loss."
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"I simply can't express how much I love what you write."
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"Poems that shatter our old ways of seeing and feeling and shoot the soul of the world straight into our veins like it's the strongest of drugs. That's what Thomas Sharp's poems do."
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"Your work touches somewhere very deep, very old, inside my being. Echoes of someone I've been somewhere, of someone I am now – perhaps not here indoors on a grey November evening, but when outside under the sky."
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"Sexiest-looking book I own and I own a lot of books."
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"A brain and a spirit like no other."