LOVE-LINES
Launch of new poetry collection
Tom Kelly

LOVE-LINES is to be published by Red Squirrel Press and launched at the Lit & Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle 7.00 p.m.
Monday February 23rd 2009

Red Squirrel Website
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com

Lit & Phil Website
http://www.litandphil.org.uk/html_pages/LP_visit.html

‘Love-Lines’ is a breathtakingly honest collection that addresses parents, grandparents, the long dead, and his younger self, often asking the questions we wish we could have asked.

Reviews of Tom Kelly’s most recent collections:
“There’s heartache and pain within these short, plainly-written poems.”
Jim Burns Ambit

“The voice is absolutely convincing, and very appealingly managed in print – something very difficult to do with our gruff yet musical gift of self-expression – half proud, half uneasy about the effect it can make – often astonishingly memorable…”

James Kirkup

“A direct tone and an understanding of the rhythms of daily speech make this a most engaging collection. Kelly explores the pains and vagaries of relationship-partner and partner, parent and child-on both sides of the grave.
The result is a series of lyrics in which confession and poetic skill frequently blend to good effect…Painful memory combines with quotidian ordinariness, guaranteeing the poignancy of the poem…”

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