Other Poetry
Series Four No. 4, 2011

History Talks
Tom Kelly (Red Squirrel Press)
As usual no sentimentality colours Kelly’s unflinching glimpses of the poverty of over-work and lack of work endured on Tyneside, yesterday and today.

Shoes, socks, block the door/on the bare floor. // The child’s left tearing wallpaper, /crying at the dead light bulb.//Unfinished business:/
bills scorned, lives broken,/love squeezed / out their lives. (‘Their Lives’)

History Talks Red Squirrel Press

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