Tom Kelly & Friends presents
Glory In The Fire
Thursday 31st July
3pm/ £5 or £10.95 with afternoon tea
Poetry, music, film and photography:

An afternoon of WW1 poetry, read by Tom Kelly. Songs from Ian Ravenscroft and Ted Cuskin; the ‘Glory in the Fire’ film with photographs by Donna-Lisa Healey, featuring Tom Kelly poems, Ian Ravenscroft music and directed by Andrew Hagan.

Here my poem ‘Me and Granda’ which is part of the GLORY IN THE FIRE film.

Me and Granda
(For And To Private James Robert Henderson,
East Yorkshire Regiment, 16985)

sat by the fire as flames grew higher,
us two, hand in glove, with no sign of blood.
No ‘over-the-top,’ seems he just forgot,
when dysentery struck, sitting in a truck.
‘Couldn’t see aa end, he told an old friend.
One place meant all pain: Salonika’s fame.
Hurt must have remained and then somehow maimed,
burnt his memory, so said nowt to me.

But we could have shared and I would have cared,
shed a child’s tear, not slept through fear,
you choose not to speak, look at the dead street,
this his battle ground with death all around?
Now I try to say just some of the ways
that he said nothing and I speak for him.

Tom Kelly

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