Little Tombeau

Tom Mason


Coach me to the room

An office, a lunar eclipse

 

Unclipping. Off with my

headgear, head music, head

 

I wanna be drinks with the gang

I wanna gain the riot’s soft centre

 

I got sideswiped to a lay-by

Laid rum on a punch

 

Solitaire of the siding

Monk to a flame’s hot whisper

 

Tom Mason is an artist and writer living in London, and working in an art school library. Alongside poetry and essays, he paints and has exhibited in London and abroad. An essay on the work of the Belgian painter Walter Swennen was published in the book What the Body Can Do (Posture Editions, 2025). ‘Times New Plural’, a paper on contemporary experiences of time, was co-authored with David Bawden and published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2023). Tom is currently compiling a booklet of short poems, and some paintings can be seen on Instagram @tmoams.