Overview

In his second collection, Northern Irish poet Ross Thompson reflects upon disappearance: the vanishing acts of people, places and the past itself through fire, frost or forgetting. The Slipping Forecast is a book haunted by spectres of the unsaid and unrequited, by phantoms of the nearly was and the could have been, a book that inhabits the in-between states of memory, dream and woozy post-surgery anaesthetic where liminal boundaries are blurred and disquieting.

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Reviews

“Thompson’s excellent Threading The Light draws on his own life and experience with some powerful poems about family, including the long, brilliant ‘Grief Is Great’.” – Poetry Ireland Review “It’s not often that you come across such a beautifully crafted and mature first collection.” – The High Window

Author Information

Former freelance journalist Ross Thompson lives in Bangor, Co. Down where he currently teaches English and performs regularly at various literary events. He was the winner of the FSNI National Poetry Competition in 2013 for his poem ‘Icarus’ and is widely published in journals. He has been shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney New Writing Award, and was commissioned by NI Screen to write a poetic sequence for the ‘Coast To Coast’ project. This is his debut collection of poems.

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