This Small Patch Review- Pulsar Magazine June 2021

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This Small Patch, poems by Tom Kelly. A 6” x 9” paperback book with a full colour cover and 76 pages.  Published 2020 by Red Squirrel Press, www.redsquirrelpress.com ISBN 978-1-910437-91-9 £10.00.   Kelly is a Jarrow man, a Tyneside man, from the … Continue reading →

ELLEN, MAGGIE AND ME   Tom Kelly

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I am looking at a photograph from 1933 of Palmers, the great Jarrow shipyard on   Tyneside. It had just closed making most of the town unemployed. My Great   Grandmother Maggie is trying to making ends meet and failing. … Continue reading →

Fragmented Voices

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  One poem, Christmas Eve, Jarrow…. Published in Fragmented Voices on-line https://fragmentedvoices.com/magazine/?fbclid=IwAR12in2yiC0oQSccIUTKnSVd-5J_lFUlDyfyrkYDVk7mmeXONH95_vciWec      

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Recent/Forthcoming Work

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From September 2020 to March 2021 My poem KISS will appear in the Fragmented Voices anthology THE LANGUAGE OF SALT- Poems of Love And Loss https://fragmentedvoices.com/ Postbox Magazine -shorts story magazine- Issue Four to publish my short story NO LOVE … Continue reading →

I have had a few acceptances & forthcoming from…

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  Ink, Sweat & Tears One poem NO EASY ANSWER on-line June 2020 http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=22001 the recusant, Sorry a prose poem & two poems Sliver & Work on- line June 2020 http://www.therecusant.org.uk/tom-kelly-new-poems/4594956931 http://www.therecusant.org.uk/tom-kelly-prose/4594956927 Crazy Oik & Penniless Press, The Ironed Man … Continue reading →

Some Reviews & Feedback on THIS SMALL PATCH from Red Squirrel Press

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  Review from TEARS IN THE FENCE July 2/20 ‘The overall effect, though, remains uplifting: this is poetry as archaeology and conservation, an exegi monumentum not to the poet himself but to the community he’s part of, and all the better for … Continue reading →