Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Harvard University Press a book arrives which shows

a book arrives which shows the possibility of reconsidering and reconceiving the way poetry works in Ireland: Leabhar Na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession (Cló Iar-Chonnacht/Bloodaxe) is one of those books… This is a terrific

there are words disappearing from children's lives

without revision

Stepmother (Chatto & Windus)

including his recent The Odes to TL61P

Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Harvard University Press a book arrives which showsLand of Three Rivers is a celebration of North East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutts song John North), the book maps the region in poems relating to past and present, depicting life from Roman times through medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of mining