Poems and Stories with Poets Tom Kelly & Alistair Robinson

Join local Poets Tom and Alistair for an afternoon of poetry and stories with a local flavour.

Tom Kelly is a Jarrow-born writer now living further up the Tyne at Blaydon. He has written many plays and five musicals, The Machine Gunners, Dan Dare, Tom & Catherine, The Dolly Mixtures and Rooney. with the late John Miles. His fourteenth collection of poems and prose These Are My Bounds was published this March by Red Squirrel Press who are celebrating their twentieth year of publishing.

Tom has worked with a number of musicians including Alan Price on the musical Kelly which was the subject of a BBC TV I & 2 documentary. More recently he wrote, with Graeme Thompson, Songs of the North East which ended its second tour in 2025. He was delighted his play Finding Dolly, was part of the production, devoted to the legendary South Shields rebel Dolly Peel in September 2025 at the Customs House.

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