Red Squirrel Press is delighted to invite you to help us celebrate the publication of Somewhere in Heaven, the new collection of poetry from Tom Kelly.

We will be holding two launch parties,

the first at 6.00 pm on Wednesday 17 February, in Northumbria University’s Gallery North;
the second a week later, at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 24 February, in South Shields Central Library.
See our Events page for further details (including how to book) – and more about other Red Squirrel events.

http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?events
Or read more about Somewhere in Heaven (including two poems from the book.)
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?somewhere

Somewhere in Heaven
by Tom Kelly

Kelly’s fourth collection continues the theme of his last

collection, Love Lines – the acute sense of loss in his north-east

England. He walks along the Tyne lamenting the loss of heavy

industry and its impact on the community.

The poem ‘Sunday in Winter’ perhaps best sums up Kelly’s

concern – a man, searching for his past life, now lost, wonders

whether it was all a dream: “some stranger’s life rifled / allowed

a dream to sneak in, / filch its corrupt way into this unbearable

aching”. In this wonderfully observed collection, Kelly captures

a world we need to hear and see.

Taken from:
PBS Bulletin, Spring 2010

http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/bulletin.html