Red Squirrel Press
Invitation

Red Squirrel Press invite you to the launch of Tom Kelly’s new poetry collection, Somewhere in Heaven.

In Somewhere in Heaven Tom Kelly charts his life and working class community with compassion and sense of loss, displaying what the late Michael Standen. reviewing The Wrong Jarrow in Other Poetry, called ‘a poetic approach akin to the wood engraver Bewick, of a landscape bleaker by far than his’.

Review of 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 it’s 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

Free event and refreshments
6.00 p.m. Wednesday 17 February
Gallery North, Squires Building, Northumbria University, Sandyford Road. Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST
(opposite Civic Centre)