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

Review:

“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 Bulletin Magazine of Poetry Book Society
Issue 220
Spring 2009

LOVE-LINES published by Red Squirrel Press was launched at the Lit & Phil, Westgate Road, Newcastle on Monday February 23rd 2009
Red Squirrel Site
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