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Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and poet. His poetry has appeared in Triggerfish Critical Review, Ponder Review, Hampden-Sydney Review, Hiram Review, Dunes Review, Avalon Literary Review, Galway Review, Milk House Review, Cleaver Magazine, River Heron Review, The Thieving Magpie, Common House Magazine, The Broken Plate, Spellbinder Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Slab Magazine, Kestrel, Susurrus Magazine, Temz Review, and elsewhere. Disappearing by the Math, a book length collection, was published by Silver Bow in 2024. Cicada, Dog, & Song, a second full-length collection, was published by Serving House Books in 2026. Foxy Love: All-American Poems, a chapbook, was published by Kelsay Books in 2026. He and his family live in Virgini ...more

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New Books Soon!

Hey everyone (anyone lol),

I have two new books arriving within the next couple of months. 1, a full-length collection, Cicada, Dog, & Song, about the way we make our homes in nature, from Serving House Books.

"These poems arrive like field notes from a life deeply lived, with a farmer’s patience and an engineer’s precision." - Renee K. Nicholson

"In the tradition of Robert Frost and Ted Hughes, [Th Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 06, 2026 07:50 • Tags: new-books, new-poetry, poetry, poetry-collections

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Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett, #25)

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I Cheerfully Refuse

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