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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A very fine piece of polemical social and literary criticism. I have every sympathy with the main thrust of ... -
On 22 October 1835 Robert Gilchrist was present as a singer at a famous occasion in Newcastle’s hist... -
NORTH EAST POETRY: DEBUNKING SOME MYTHS Keith Armstrong ‘In Gateshead, we passed some little streets named after the poets, Chaucer and... -
ODE TO TCHAIKOVSKY: MY WHITE STONE Tchaikovsky- man, I found you on manoeuvres; or, ... -
" The Caller " (or in Geordie dialect – "The Caaller") is a famous folk song written in the 19th century by Edward ... -
TUESDAY MARCH 10TH 1761 ‘The Market Place was a tragic sight. Bodies of the dead and wounded lay scattered. The ground was... -
‘WIBSON’ HEXHAM’S ‘PEOPLE’S POET’: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-196... -
SONG FOR NORTHUMBERLAND Drifting in moonlight, the dunes sing their songs. ... -
(for William Martin, 1925-2010) There are those who sing, poets with the breath of thrushes; who craft songs from out of t... -
‘ How wonderfully has his invention facilitated the meeting of thou...