Works
POEMS OF RESISTANCE
This is a short book of poems about thinking through how to resist threats to our freedom of thought, speech, action, creativity, and conscience.
The objective of the poems is to help the reader clear their mind.
The book includes a short section on knowing your rights, based on guidance from the American Civil Liberties Union, and a short suggested bibliography for further reading, including some classics, and some more recent books.
The book will be available in August 2025.
WETLANDS: Low Country Haiku
Poems by Marc Thomas, illustrations by Jose Ray.
A collection of poems about the land, waters and animals of the
Georgia Low Country, its marshes, the city of Savannah, its culture,its people,,and especially,of Forsyth Park, and of the poet's adventures teaching Haiku in the Park.
This book is now available at:
- The Book Lady Bookstore, 6 East Liberty Street, Savannah
- Locally Made Savannah, 223 West Broughton Street, Savannah
- The Irritable Pelican, 802 1st Street, Tybee Island (really on US 80)
- Friendship Coffee Company, 205 Johnny Mercer Boulevard, Wilmington Island
LISTENING TO THE SURVIVORS: Ghost Stories from the Recent Plague
This a a one act verse play based on a series of poems by the same collective title in Talking to the Machines and Other Poems.
The play is suitable for stage or radio or table read performance. It is an account, in diverse voices, of the impacts, costs, and sufferings of victims of long COVID, but it also goes to the experience of the many silent sufferers of the after effects of other infections.
The narrator recounts his visitations by a series of twelve ghosts, each of which has a different tale of the half life/half death of prolonged recovery.
TALKING TO THE MACHINES and other poems
Marc Thomas, in his second volume of poetry since Surviving Fragments, takes on the machines — how artificial intelligence says more about Us than Them, reflects on the once-in-a-century COVID pandemic, everyday epiphanies, the nature of poetry, the enigma of identity, and concludes with ruminations about the century-old (and often inscrutable) literary masterpiece of James Joyce's Ulysses.
No longer available from Monte Ceceri Publishers, Swanhorse Press, Amazon, or Ingram Sparks.
See me on most Saturday mornings in Forsyth Park, Savannah, and I will sell you a copy from my supply.
Plans are in the works for a revised and expanded second edition that will be available from Ruminating Poet Press.
SURVIVING FRAGMENTS
For more than fifty years, Marc Thomas has written occasional fragments that he calls poetry.
During the pandemic, he began to write again, beginning with a review of his earlier work. This debut collection highlights the favorites he has kept and reworked. Some date back to 1967, while a few are recent.
The topics, the styles, and even the opinions are diverse, with varied themes that touch upon moments from daily life, small and large epiphanies, and a recurring concern with language and the challenges of epistemology.
No longer available from Monte Ceceri Publishers, Swanhorse Press, Amazon, or Ingram Sparks.
See me on most Saturday mornings in Forsyth Park, Savannah, and I will sell you a copy from my supply.
Plans are in the works for a revised and expanded second edition that will be available from Ruminating Poet Press.