Tom Kelly
New poetry collection from Red Squirrel

Launch Wednesday February 17th, 6.00 pm @ Gallery North.
Northumbria University

http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk/visit/?view=Standard
Red Squirrel Site
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?books

The collection will feature in the next issue of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin.
http://ww1.poetrybooks.co.uk/PBS/pbs_bulletin_nm.asp

Here’s the PBS Bulletin Review of Love-Lines my most recent collection:

“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.”

The Poetry Book Society Bulletin Spring, 2009