Love-Lines, by Tom Kelly

Tom Kelly will be reading from his latest poetry collection, Love-Lines and his recent play NOTHING LIKE THE WOODEN HORSE at 7.30 pm on Monday 27th April at South Shields Library, Prince Georg Square, South Shields, NE33 2PE. (For more information, telephone the Library: 0191 427 1717). We hope you will be able to join us there.

See GAZETTE article & photo
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Poet-tells-all-about-the.5236226.jp

LOVE-LINES
New poetry collection
Tom Kelly
Red Squirrel Website
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?lovelines

“Kelly’s third collection, and his second to be published by the Red Squirrel Press, builds brilliantly upon the themes of his earlier work and resounds with a rawness, pathos and humour that leaps from the page and seems to whisper charmingly in your ear like an old friend. A proud son of the North East, his poetry is preoccupied with place and loss, with a faultless ear for the nuances of his native Tyneside, picking out the small details of everyday life and making them sing, from memories of awkwardly sharing a urinal with his father to nights spent wistfully looking through photograph albums, gazing at pictures that ‘umbrella the light but stop a long way short of living’. These are vivid, compelling and often beautiful poems, by turns sad and uplifting, that certainly deserve a wide readership.”

Taken from Poetry Book Society Bulletin
Issue 220
Spring 2009

Red Squirrel is also delighted to celebrate the publication of our first play. Nothing Like the Wooden Horse is the script of Tom Kelly’s play which recently premiered at the Customs House, South Shields. It is currently available at the special offer price of £2.49, reduced from £2.99.

NOTHING LIKE THE WOODEN HORSE
REVIEWS

The Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear

“There are those occasions, albeit they are sometimes few and far between, when a theatre critic is given the opportunity to review a play that is utterly compelling, deeply affecting and hugely entertaining. Last night was one of those blessed occasions.”

From UK THEATRE NETWORK
http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/nothing-like-the-wooden-horse_69.html

British Theatre Guide
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/woodenhorse-rev.htm

The Public Reviews
http://thepublicreviews.blogspot.com/2009/03/nothing-like-wooden-horse-customs-house.html

THE JOURNAL REVIEW
http://blogs.journallive.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt421/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=417&tag=War%20Wooden%20Horse%20Tom%20Kelly%20South%20Shields&limit=20

CHRONICLE REVIEW
http://www.whatsonne.co.uk/gb/theatre/reviews-and-previews/nothing-like-the-wooden-horse-customs-house-south-shields