Strong Women

Celebrating International Women’s Day

 

Writer, Paula Bartley will talk on her book ‘Ellen Wilkinson from Red Suffragist to Government Minister.’

 

Plus three films by South Shields filmmaker Gary Wilkinson, on strong women very much part of South Tyneside.

 

Tom Kelly will introduce the event

 

Tuesday March 8^th, 2016, 2.30 & 7.45

 

http://www.customshouse.co.uk/whats-on/Theatre/2140/strong-women

 

Men of the Tyne

Are Back!

Stories, songs and film

Tom Kelly, Ted Cuskin & Ian Ravenscroft

The Customs House March 9 & 10 2016

http://www.customshouse.co.uk/whats-on/Theatre/2141/men-of-the-tyne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB9RpD9Jm6A

 

Spelk

Tom Kelly

New poetry collection from

Red Squirrel Press

 

Pre-order from

editor@redsquirrelpress.com

This is my eighth collection.

Here are some reviews of previous collections

Check the reviews to be found in ‘Too much Toothache’- Reviews from Alan Dent

http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/books/too_much_toothache.htm

And here is one from the PBS

Poetry Book Society Bulletin, Spring 2012

The Time Office – New & Selected Poems

Tom Kelly

Having reviewed several of Tom Kelly’s collections in previous

Bulletins, it is no surprise that this New and Selected Poems

continues the themes of place, loss and longing.

Kelly’s work is rooted in his native north-east, especially Jarrow,

where he was brought up. His short, spare pieces speak in a

direct, unfussy voice and Kelly continues to excel when he is

fusing emotion and location, a wonderful alchemy that touches

on a range of experiences common to us all. Despite the huge

feeling of disenfranchisement and loss which permeates these

poems – “‘Nowt’ stamped on foreheads / leaden hands and

hearts”, Kelly resists the well-trodden political response of lesser

poets which detracts from the tenderness present in these

poems. From harrowing tales of PoW camps retold through a

father’s letter to his children, to aphoristic pieces written in the

broad Geordie dialect, Kelly is a versatile writer. Taken together,

these poems are a raw, direct assault on the senses.

Available from Red Squirrel Press

http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?home

Tom Kelly Page on RSP site

http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/KellyTimeOfficeBIOG.html

 

The Spelk launch is on Wednesday 6^th April @ 7.00 at the wonderful Lit & Phil

Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne

http://www.litandphil.org.uk/

 

Baby Love

A Play by Tom Kelly

The play has a mini tour-

April 21 Arts Centre Washington

http://www.artscentrewashington.co.uk/production-details.aspx?id=762

April 22-25 Gala Theatre Durham

http://www.galadurham.co.uk/theatre/index.php?page=15

May 3-4^th Customs House South Shields

http://www.customshouse.co.uk/whats-on/Theatre/2164/baby-love