TYNESIDE POETS!
About Me
- Tynebard
- North East England, United Kingdom
- This is the blog of the erstwhile Tyneside Poets. The aim is to archive over four decades of writing and publish new works.
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Tanfield Lea is a former mining village which was home to Tommy Armstrong, wh... -
" The Caller " (or in Geordie dialect – "The Caaller") is a famous folk song written in the 19th century by Edward ... -
A very fine piece of polemical social and literary criticism. I have every sympathy with the main thrust of ... -
(for Helmut Bugl) On this evening flight, necks stuck out, we dart in formation to a Stuttgart dream. Compl... -
Grey – this man and his brain’s conception, clasped in stone. Disdainful figure raised on a firm dry finger;... -
The sun on Danby Gardens smells of roast beef, tastes of my youth. The flying cinders of a steam train spark in my dreams. Across t...
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‘WIBSON’ HEXHAM’S ‘PEOPLE’S POET’: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-196... -
ODE TO TCHAIKOVSKY: MY WHITE STONE Tchaikovsky- man, I found you on manoeuvres; or, ... -
Mark Akenside, poet and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, was born at Newcastle upon Tyne on 9 t... -
Robert Gilchrist was born in St Mary’s Parish in Gateshead on 8th September 1797. His father was a sa...