Poetry & Essays

​Recent Poems
The Carolina Quarterly (Winter 2021): "A Question of How Far Back You Want to Go," "Obligation," "Art of the Gods"
New American Writing 38 (2020): "Election." 
Conduit 29 (Spring 2019): "The Inescapability of It"

Books

Review of Notebook of Last Things in the Fortnightly Review: fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2020/03/spring-storms-2020/

Brief interview regarding Notebook of Last Things:news.ncsu.edu/2019/09/notebook-of-last-things-q-and-a/

 Strange Country
(Shearsman Books, 2016)

For more on Strange Country, visit Shearsman Books

Landscape with Light (Shearsman Books, 2014)
See more about it here

Selected Reviews:
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/declarative-urgent-and-rare-jon-thompsons-landscape-with-light/
http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202015/feb2015/ShadesOfCool.Baylis.htm
http://tearsinthefence.com/2014/12/20/jon-thompsons-landscape-with-light-shearsman-books/

Brief interview:
http://theimportanceofbeingaloof.tumblr.com/post/111647988434/5-questions-with-jon-thompson

The Book of the Floating World (Parlor Press, 2007)

Reviews of The Book of the Floating World
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue04/html/features/reviews/the_book_of_the_floating_world.htm
http://www.wordforword.info/vol8/Shimoda.htm

After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing
(Shearsman Books, 2009)

II Essays
After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing (2009)
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/thompsonJon.htm
A sample essay from After Paradise can be read at Identity Theory:
http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/thompson_melville.phpweeblylink_new_window

Reviews of After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing
Notre Dame Review, Issue 30:http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr30/contents30.html
Blackbox Manifold, No. 4:http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue4/AdamPiette.html