Works
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.
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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.
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