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.
Popular Posts
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‘WIBSON’ HEXHAM’S ‘PEOPLE’S POET’: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-196... -
A very fine piece of polemical social and literary criticism. I have every sympathy with the main thrust of ... -
NORTH EAST POETRY: DEBUNKING SOME MYTHS Keith Armstrong ‘In Gateshead, we passed some little streets named after the poets, Chaucer and... -
(for Helmut Bugl) On this evening flight, necks stuck out, we dart in formation to a Stuttgart dream. Compl... -
Me Me, Aa’ll nivvor be poor Till emptied of me dreams… Ne thowts vibrate wi’ winged words T’ seek warm climes like valiant bords ‘ned...
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AMEN CORNER (in memory of Thomas Bewick, wood engraver) The starlings en masse roost here now. ... -
TUESDAY MARCH 10TH 1761 ‘The Market Place was a tragic sight. Bodies of the dead and wounded lay scattered. The ground was... -
Keith Armstrong of ‘Northern Voices Community Projects’ looks at twinning exchanges and recounts a few stories along the way ‘Ei...
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TELL ME LIES ABOUT NORTHUMBERLAND (in honour of Adrian Mitchell) Say this land is ours, these pipe tunes do not cry. The birds all sing in... -
Tanfield Lea is a former mining village which was home to Tommy Armstrong, wh...