Tom Kelly Poetry Readings
I’ve some readings in the next few weeks and here they are:
I hope to see you at one of them!
Tuesday May 27th
6.30 p.m.
BORDERS
Team Valley Trading Estate
Retail Park
Gateshead
Free
http://www.borderslocal.co.uk/gateshead/
Wednesday May 28th
8.00 p.m.
BRIDGE HOTEL
Newcastle upon Tyne
Four Tyneside Poets:
Kath Kenny, Joan Johnston, Ally May
and Tom Kelly
£4.00/£3.00 on door
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/12/1218/Bridge_Hotel/Newcastle
Monday June 2nd
8.00
THE BLACK BULL
BLAYDON
Blaydon Festival
Launch of my new collection
DREAMERS IN A COLD CLIMATE
Aidan Halpin, Steve Urwin and James Oates will join me
Free
Publisher Red Squirrel will bring along copies of their publications
http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/index.php?dreamers
And here is a review by Andy Croft, which appeared in Morning Star May 21st
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index2.php/free/culture/arts/the_everyman_and_the_empire
“The first half of Tom Kelly’s Dreamers in a Cold Climate (Red Squirrel, £6.99) is a series of bleak, tender monochrome portraits of growing up in Jarrow in the 1960s (‘speak when spoken to, / worry when teachers shout’, ‘You joined the gang / or ran every play time / away from fists and kicks’).
The second half of the book is a long sequence about a Geordie Everyman, a skilled worker and grafter who is bewildered by ‘life after work’ (‘Th’ Japanese took wa ships, / giv’us bloody karaoke. / Not much of aa swop’). It is a beautiful elegy to work and to the industrial working-class – ‘Thatcher was shameless. / Greed: mak’ the’ rich richor. / “Where’d that leave us?” / Ask every miner, / steel workers at Consett, / shipyards: aal gone. / Black days and neets.’”
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