Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Robert Graves Patience Agbabi and many more

Patience Agbabi and many more

one of which presents an author’s work exactly as it first appeared volume-by-volume

for whom “the heart is a leaf / and the wind makes it throb

remarkable verse they wrote when their older sibling tragically took his own life

Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Robert Graves Patience Agbabi and many moreLand 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