BLAYDON FESTIVAL
Poetry
THE BLACK BULL, BLAYDON

Tuesday 8th. June, 7.30 pm 2010

Tom Kelly, the Blaydon poet and playwright, will launch his new collection
SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN,

“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 sums up Kelly’s concern – a man, searching for his past life, now lost, wonders whether it was 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…”

The Poetry Book Society Bulletin, Spring 2010

In addition there will be readings from Red Squirrel poets Alistair Robinson and Red Squirrel Poetry Competition winner Lesly Mountain.

Plus an open mic session if you want to read your own poems.

ENTRY FREE!!!

Somewhere in Heaven
Published by Red Squirrel Press

http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?somewhere

Somewhere in Heaven
Available from Inpress Books

http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/somewhere_in_heaven_tom_kelly_i020816.aspx