History Talks Tom Kelly
Red Squirrel Press
“Tom Kelly is a prolific writer. In addition to his collections of poetry (of which this is the fifth), he has also penned numerous plays and this contributes to the real sense of drama that fills his poems. He writes about the North East past and present, and there is an impressive sense of place in all these poems. From ‘Flash Gordon’ who “shopping in Asda…keeps an eye on the check-out,” to “My father’s brother. Unmarried…He’d drink at dinnertime and worked nights in the Steel Works.” Perhaps it is in the final stanza of ‘Cold Morning’ that best sums up this collection and Tom’s visceral, immediate poetry. “I can’t see the future/imagine anything/apart from this.” History Talks.”
Poetry Book Bulletin, Spring, 2011

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History Talks
Jim Burns

“How good it is to read poems about something real and which are written so directly and with rhythms that make them roll along. There’s a lot of truth there and a lot of love. ‘No Laughing Matter’ is a real gem.”

Jim Burns