Land of Three Rivers by Neil Astley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Contents John North Land of Three Rivers: 1 The Poetry of North-East England (1966) Writing on Teesside: 1 (2010) Land of Three Rivers: 2 What the Chairman Told Tom Writing on Teesside: 2 (2010) Land of Three Rivers

from New Year Letter The Glittering North from The Pleasures of the Imagination Northumberland from Briggflatts Springan

Hadrian’s Wall

Roman Wall Blues The Roman Centurion’s Song On Cawfields Crag Chesterholm The Watch on the Wall Poem found at Chester’s Museum, Hadrian’s Wall Rain – Birdoswald Vindolanda – January Brigomaglos, a Christian speaks… The Crooked Glen The Hooded Gods Stone Relief Housesteads AD 128 This Far and No Further After Heavenfield Between Greenhead and Sewingshields

Jarrow

On Caedmon Caedmon’s Song Caedmon Northumbrian Sequence Jarrow Jarrow Talking to Bede Bede’s World On Not Finding Bede Monument The Time Office, 1965 The Wrong Jarrow

Borderers

The Battle of Otterbourne Hotspur Borderers from Foray: Border Reiver Women 1500-1600 The Cheviots Alicia Unthank’s Ark The Robsons Gone Truce Day The Spur in the Dish Raiding the Borders Borderers Northumborland (2) A Reiver’s Neck-Verse A Jacobite’s Exile (1764)

North to South Northumberland

Old Border Rhyme The Cheviot Dunnie’s Song The Tweed Near Berwick from Tweed The Harbourmaster’s Daughter Midsummer Night, Berwick Duddo Stones Routing Linn, Northumberland Acknowledged Land acknowledged land Stately Home from Marmion Lindisfarne Holy Island Arch Causeway St Cuthbert on Inner Farne Making the Book A Short History of Bamburgh Bamburgh Wind Grace Darling Grace Darling Charlie Douglas The Marks t’ Gan By Stinky Dunstanborough from Dunstanburgh Deposition Alnmouth At the Friary in Alnmouth Druridge Bay Felton Lonnen The Complaint of the Morpethshire Farmer Butterwell The Pit Heap Seacoaling The Earthen Lot The Blackleg Miner ‘Two hundred men and eighteen killed…’ The Hartley Calamity The Collier Lad Get Up!

North Tyne, Redesdale, Coquetdale

from The Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel Winter on the Carter Fell Wild Hills O’ Wannys The Raw Epitaph for Ned Allan Northumborland (1) ‘Stones trip Coquetburn’ from Hen Harrier Poems ‘There are, were, four couples south of Cheviot…’ ‘Formerly on traditionally-managed haughland…’ Katharine Macgregor – of The Sneep, Tarset ‘The cadence of a Strathspey, played slow…’ Between Lord’s Shaw and Pit Houses Sundaysight Hareshaw Hareshaw Linn Hareshaw Linn An Old Shepherd’s Adventure at Bellingham Show Saturday Bellingham The Kielder Hunt How Mackie Did the Drowning, Plashetts ‘Out, Northumberland, Out!’ The Water of Tyne

Tynedale, South Tyne, North Pennines

In Hexham Abbey The Abbey Tower Devilswater Mother and Maid Fareweel Regality Fallowfield Fell At Bywell Allendale Dog Allendale A Rough Walk Home The Old Lead-mine Rookhope (Weardale, Summer 1922) The Pumping Engine, Cashwell The Engine House Lead’s the Best The Watershed Killhope Wheel, 1860, Co. Durham Strike Spade Killhope What’s It Like Up There? Road No Buses to Damascus Cushy Number High Fells, April 2011 Where Rise Watters of Tyne, Tees, Wear

Newcastle

News from Newcastle Newcastle Is Peru Newcastle Is Benidorm Bacchantes Newcastle Is Lesbos The Entry of Don Quixote into Newcastle upon Tyne Song of the Longboat Boys Newcastle Beer ‘Our Friends in the North’ A Return to Newcastle Hyem Moving On Satsumas A Short Manifesto to My City Old Jezzy The Wild Life on Newcastle Town Moor Temperance Festival, Town Moor, Newcastle from Twelve Songs Traditions The Hoppings Divisions Brazen Faces Grainger Market Gift of the Gab Street Song A riddle on the steeple of St Nicholas’s Cathedral, Newcastle Thin Riddle On Falling Up Dog Leap Stairs Salvaging The Side Down to the Waterline Mistress of the Crown The Keel Row Do-li-a Fog on the Tyne Big River Tyneside, 1936 Bridging Loans Passed By Down the Town Where Home Started The Devil’s Destroying Angel Exploded I Looked Down on a Child Today Baltic Mill Treading Water The West End Rebuilding the West from The Collier’s Wedding About Benwell After the Blaydon Races The Blaydon Races The Blazing Grater, or, The Olympic Torch Passes Through Tyneside from Great North Cutty Sark Race, 1986 Zamyatin in Heaton Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright

Gateshead

from The Pitman’s Pay Maw Bonny Gyetside Lass Gateshead Gateshead Grammar Angel of the North The Angel Angel Metal

North Tyneside

H.M.S. Hero Tyne Ferry: Night Night Fishing Trawlers When the Boat Comes In Island of Souls The Tyneside Widow Bobby Shafto Written at Tynemouth, Northumberland… The Coast-Watch Balloons in Sunrise The Harbour: Tynemouth The North Sea at Tynemouth At Tynemouth View Cullercoats Whitley Bay Sonnets Tyneside in Winter Whitley Bay Tunnel of Love

South Shields

The Town Where I Was Born View from the North East Miners Tyne Dock Tyne Dock Revisited In Memoriam The grotto Marsden Rock The Knocker-up The Knocker-up View from the Town Hall, South Shields Spring in the Public Gardens The Old Clothes Stall, South Shields Market South Shields Town Hall in Snow The Old Library, Ocean Road, South Shields Cross-hatch

Wearside

The Lambton Worm The Walrus and the Carpenter His Bright Silver Song of the Cotia Lass Wiramutha Helix Song Penshaw Pastoral Jack Crawford Where in This Wind Ship 1431 What Maks Makems A19 Hymn A184 Hymn

Durham

Durham Arvo Pärt in Concert, Durham Cathedral, November 1998 Durham Beatitude Durham Durham Seen from the Train Durham Cathedral Durham Cathedral Durham in February River Wear, Durham ‘But with a history of ECT’ The Pitman’s Garden

Co. Durham

Rap ’Er te Bank The South Medomsley Strike The Durham Lock-out The Ponies from Brandon Pithouse Forgotten of the Foot Salter’s Gate To a Remembered Stream, and a Never-Forgotten Friend Lilies A Camp in Chopwell Woods Chester-le-Street from the Train View of Ferryhill The Ghost of a Tree A695 Hymn Among the Villages The Singing Pylons Esh Winning Lost Landscape Deerness Valley North Sea Coal The Box-Eggs The Strike Two Up Two Down Dalton Park/Murton The Easington Explosion The Pigeon Men Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963

Teesdale

from Rokeby A Jacobite’s Epigraph from My Journey to Work The Engine House In Teesdale High Force to Low Force Low Force Cockfield Fell in Winter Whorlton Lido A Darlington rhyme Darlington Fifty Years Ago Darlington North Tees Epiphany Teesdale, Thornaby

Middlesbrough

from Cleveland Thoughts; or, The Poetry of Toil Furnaces Cleveland Night Fire Sunlight and Heat The Cold Steel Smelter The Works Dockside Road, South Bank Teesport, Redcar Peg Powler Cook, The Bridge and the Big Man Occasion for Keeping Shtum Acklam Rainbow Easterside ’59 Easterside ’89 Boro Babe Boro Girl

Cleveland

from Between Stations On the Gare at Night Redcar Sands Potato Sellers – Cleveland Saltburn

Farewell

from Never Can Say Goodbye Bonny at Morn

Acknowledgements Index of writers Index of places Copyright

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