“The strangely most punk poet” – mü magazine
“A remarkable self-driven creator, working outside the usual-suspect groups, with an enormous investment of time and talent” – Sphinx Review
“He is so obviously special” – Sir Tim Smit, founder of Eden Project
I am a poet.
I do not currently have publishing or gallery representation. Over the last six years I have created and hosted poetic happenings to a combined audience of 1,000+. Sold around £5,000 of books and prints privately to India, USA, Canada, France, Australia, Germany, Italy, Ireland and the UK. Built an audience of 5,000 Instagram followers of my work and a mailing list of 1000 addresses. Distributed around another 1,500 books for free globally. This is in accordance with William Blake’s gifting philosophy.
I have performed at Edinburgh Poetry Festival, in English rainforests and countless other venues. Had a retrospective of my first six years’ work held in Field System art gallery in Devon. Been appointed the first ever poet-in-residence for Turner’s House in Twickenham, marking Tuner’s 250th year.
I have received commissions from major brands and organisations. These include St Martin-in-the-Fields to write a poem for Sir Simon Russell Beale to perform at a Classic FM event, and London Fire Brigade to write a poem which has subsequently been read at firefighter’s funerals and in church sermons. (A line from this is painted above Old Street Fire Station, it is shared on social media daily, most recently by Pedro Pascal.)
I’ve also written pieces for Historic Royal Palaces, Global Witness, British Library, English National Ballet and many more.
“Thomas Sharp’s work conjures unique and somehow at once relatable images, universal truth hidden in new ways to see things. It challenges me to think differently, mystically and passionately.”
“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.”
Books
Poetry books. Look, I know they’re the opposite of everything capitalism tells us is good or useful, but do buy more self-published poetry books.
“Thank you so much for keeping language alive. If there is a magical world behind the ragged curtain, I’m sure its inhabitants shine bright every time you release new poetry, I know I do.”
“Afterwards I felt entirely scattered and transformed across the room, it felt like I’d walked through many lives from my bed. Your words are like liquid and spoke to something very ancient in me.”
“One of the best events I’ve ever been to. I felt completely overwhelmed on every level – intellectual, aesthetic, spiritual, emotional.”
“Poems that 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.”
“... surreal, majestic and insightful … Thomas Sharp is so magician-like.”
“It’s as if I’ve stumbled upon an endless reservoir of thought.”
Things I’m doing and loving
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We don't know what this is
21st June, 4:43am
Solstice sunrise watching on Hackney Marshes
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Online poetry reading
25th June
Reading from my books LCMR and Black ribbon.
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Our Longland Is Dreaming
19th July 2025
A medieval poetry happening in a field in Devon.
“Otherworldly genius!”
“A brain and a spirit like no other.”
Biography
After I left the English West Mid Lands village of my childhood – a hedged-in place comfortable with crop circles, crumbling churches and darkness behind cottage doors – they dug up an old field and discovered Europe’s largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure. I have to accept this as a metaphor. I was conceived in Christine Keeler’s London bedroom – she was the beautiful at the centre of a scandal which almost brought down the British Government.
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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."
“Escapism, reality, futuristic, eternal – in shades all. Scathing, delightful, transcendent, trippy, sexy and mind bending.”
“Your Arcadia makes me want to vomit Love.”
Happenings & creations
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The Idyllegy – an unravelling
A one hour literary lecture based on my Arcadian book ‘The Idyllegy’. Partnering with Eleanor Robins, Will of Margaret, Francesca Way, Mario Epsley, and Sarah Kershaw, the happening was a poetic exploration of fragments, sex, nostalgia and meadows, as well as a magickal ritual to raise Pan.
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The running towards
Drawn from a longer commissioned poem, this single line appears above London’s Old Street fire station. It has become a landmark piece of art in the capital, being photographed and shared daily. The longer poem, about the bravery of firefighters, has been read at funerals and in church sermons. You can read it here.
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The Dataset's Dream
A wilderness installation. Experiencers listen to a twenty poetic audio of a dataset having her first dream, whilst encounter beautiful casket sculptures. Visual artist Bryony Ella and I were commissioned to create this for the UK Centre for Hydrology and Ecology.
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The Abyssmass Variety Show
My long poem ‘Changeling’ – about Aleister Crowley and Victory Neuburg sex-magicking in the desert and crossing the abyss – designates December 6th as Abyssmass. In 2024 I marked this most exciting of days by hosting the Abyssmass Variety Show which featured an incredible line-up of artists and performers.
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Circling the square mile
Building from my pamphlet ‘The Weeping Cufflinks’, which posits that London’s City Traders are the faery folk the old tales warned us about, a group of us have begun planting the world’s largest faery ring around the Square Mile – London’s financial district. We do this every Leap Day, February 29th. 2028 is the next planting. All credit to Marc and Rosey for the original idea.
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Jack and Jill – the buried Merlin
My book ‘Jack and Jill’ is about teenage love and psychedelia. US mask makers Natalie and Kasidy created masks for each of the main characters in the poem. I’ve buried one of the Merlin masks somewhere in England. If you own all five covers of the original printing of ‘Jack and Jill’, then you can discover the location.
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Game Six
‘Game Six’ was an intense poetry and video Happening about post-truth politics, Derrida, a famous chess match, and the Bhagavad Gita. Chess grandmaster and philosopher Jonathan Rowson called it “Intensely perspectival, abounds with signifiers, but pertinent, with an underlying pulse of truth seeking and even a hint of transcendence”. A collaboration with my regular partners Studio Sutherl&.
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Twenty-five sculptures in five dimensions
A sculpture installation in Covent Garden in 2019, ‘Twenty-five sculptures in five dimensions’ is a Fluxus-inspired work about consciousness, reality, art and imagination. Of it celebrated designer Astrid Stavro said "everything about it is stunning. Such beauty and such courage. Wow."
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There is a word
I was commissioned by St Martin-in-the-Fields to write a poem for Sir Simon Russell Beale to perform. The piece, ‘There is a word’, can be found in my ‘Language, consciousness, magick, romance’ book.
