My new collection The Time Office , published by Red Squirrel was launched at the wonderful Lit & Phill Newcastle in February and I have had a number of readings throughout the north-east.
And here’s a few photos from the launhch from the PMT Blog

http://pmt-women.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/tom-kelly-book-launch-time-office-new.html

Why not visit the Red Squirrel Site:

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

http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/publishers/red-squirrel-press/the-time-office-new-selected-poems-1/

Here’s Tom reading some poems from THE TIME OFFICE

And here are two early reviews of THE TIME OFFICE

The Time Office is a collection of new and selected poems by North East poet and dramatist, Tom Kelly. His poems are tied up with place and loss – visceral and immediate. He has a faultless ear for the nuances of his native Tyneside, picking out those small, details that make life here so unique.”

Newcastle Culture Magazine

“Having reviewed several of Tom Kelly’s collections in previous Bulletins, it is no surprise that this New and Selected Poems continues the themes of place, loss and longing. “Kelly’s work is rooted in his native north-east, especially Jarrow, where he was brought up. His short, spare pieces speak in a direct, unfussy voice and Kelly continues to excel when he is fusing emotion and location, a wonderful alchemy that touches on a range of experiences common to us all. Despite the huge feeling of disenfranchisement and loss which permeates these poems – ”Nowt’ stamped on foreheads / leaden hands and hearts’; Kelly resists the well-trodden political response of lesser poets which detracts from the tenderness present in these poems. From harrowing tales of PoW camps retold through a father’s letter to his children, to aphoristic pieces written in the broad Geordie dialect, Kelly is a versatile writer. Taken together, these poems are a raw, direct assault on the senses.”

Poetry Book Society Bulletin Spring 2012